Just for the record the IP addresses for us.archive.ubuntu.com all seem
to resolve to machines in London. Here is one example:
$ tracepath us.archive.ubuntu.com
[first few elided for privacy]
3: 114.at-5-0-0.gw3.200p-sf.sonic.net (74.220.64.17) 37.975ms asymm 4
4:
{us.,}.archive.ubuntu.com (and *.archive.ubuntu.com not provided by
mirrors) no longer send ETag headers; thanks for the suggestion.
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Thanks. I can confirm that the servers are returning Last-Modified but
not ETag. I am looking to future updates and upgrades to be much
quicker across all my machines.
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So, setting
FileETag MTime Size
or
FileETag None
would be reasonable.
Of course, how we get all the mirrors doing that is a separate problem.
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Oh, I forgot to mention; if the mirror syncing logic doesn't preserve
mtime, you would want to remove mtime from the etag too; at that point
I'd remove the etag completely.
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Using the wget command the last modified times were all the same. I
don't know what they use behind the scenes but if it is rsync (my best
guess) then the last modified times will be in sync.
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Thanks for your bugreport.
I forwarded it to the sysadmin team as ticket #32129
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I don't know of any better way to report this bug. The configuration of
archive.ubuntu.com prevents proxy servers from caching packages. This
may be because of poor configuration of archive.ubuntu.com, buggy
behaviour of that software or an opportunity for the
