On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: : How often are the debian mirrors updated?
Primary-push mirrors are updated daily. : I just installed potato a couple days ago, using the : Canadian pkg mirror at ftp.ca.debian.org. Today, I : ran apt-get update; apt-get upgrade for the first : time, and got 0 packages updated. On a hunch, I changed : my sources.list to point to http.us.debian.org, and : reran the update/upgrade, and got 29 packages updated. : : Is this just an n-day lag between the primary site and : the mirror, or is ftp.ca.debian.org not being maintained? : If the former, how big is n? If it's just a couple days, : I can certainly live with that, but if it's much longer, : I'll stick to hitting the primary site. I don't know by who or how often ftp.ca.debian.org is maintained, but I do know that http.us.debian.org consists of several primary-push mirrors which are the first mirrors to update. : My transfer times are comparable (about 10-14.5 KB/s over : a 1M ADSL connection, which is pretty poor) between both : sites, though the US site is more variable -- I suspect : that's due to the higher load on the US site, since my : ISP has good connectivity to the US backbone. http.us.debian.org is a round robin A record: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ host http.us.debian.org http.us.debian.org A 63.209.15.252 http.us.debian.org A 207.69.194.216 http.us.debian.org A 24.220.0.13 http.us.debian.org A 209.249.97.234 http.us.debian.org A 141.213.4.21 Try pinging/tracerouting to each in turn; you'll probably find one that is consistently faster than the others. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)