On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: : I had exactly the same error message when I was trying to use dselect : the first time with ftp.debian.org.....tried one of the other : mirrors and everything seemed to work.....weird. : Weirder still I later tried ftp.debian.org and it worked! : : I must have been doing something wrong initially but I can't imagine what. : : You might try one of the other mirrors though.... : : http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors : : Good luck. : : Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp.debian.org is often _busy_ (people like us :) I don't think dselect differentiates between errors - a "too many users" is just as bad as "no route to host" (and, if you want files _now_, that's a valid way of looking at things.) I've noted before on this list that the README.mirrors file is out of date. Is it actively maintained? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
