On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, David Z Maze wrote:
> 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. Well fair enough. Any way you choose to do it, the downed server seems to be 204.152.189.120. There are the four servers I get from dig: http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 141.213.4.21 http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 192.25.206.10 http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 35.9.37.225 http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 204.152.189.120 There seems to be only one machine for non-us(?). What does it take to setup a mirror? I have largely idle bandwidth in an abovenet colo that would be fine for a debian mirror. -jwb
