Hi APT maintainers, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> As Eugene noticed, the use of round-robin DNS between out-of-sync > mirrors, by ftp.us.debian.org for example, makes it hard to reliably > fetch and verify the Debian archive's index files. Despite having > similar addresses Release.gpg, Release, and Packages can end up being > fetched from different mirrors. I suspect it is possible for this to > come up in some proxy setups, too, where the client has no control > over which mirror each file is fetched from. > > I suggested that one possible solution would be to force use of IP > addresses for host names in requests made by the APT HTTP method. Of > course this is not ideal, because among other things it breaks virtual > hosts. Ping? Would you be interested in a patch for this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
