Hi Ross
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:35:38PM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> According to apt-transport-mirror(1), apt can do this on the client side.
> Once
> the MR for mirror+file apt sources is merged, we'd do something like:
> https://aws.deb.debian.cloud priority:1
> https://deb.debian.org
> This seems simpler than fastly tricks, though I haven't ever tried it.
It will for now introduce delays, as apt considers all errors transient.
- Not in DNS? transient, retry.
- Nothing listening? transient, retry.
Okay, it only retries four times after one second each. So in the case
we would need to kill the own entry, all "apt update" requests now take
five seconds longer.
Regards,
Bastian
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