Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JWB> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g> i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly g> troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin g> are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get hung up. is g> it possible to get these broken hosts out of the list? JWB> JWB> I was seeing the same thing. I found a reliable mirror and JWB> hard-wired it in /etc/hosts
Eeeew. I'm all for the "finding a reliable mirror" thing, and I think there are tools to help you do that if randomly pinging things off of the mirrors list isn't your thing. Rather than hard-wiring somebody else's IP address in /etc/hosts, though, it feels a lot cleaner to me to just put the name of your neighborhood mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list directly. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
