Seth Delackner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, hello and thanks. Please be gentle, this is my first debian-users > post. > > Whilst installing debian-stable I am encountering the most bizarre > behavior: During the apt-setup stage, using ftp or http, > the "Connecting" stage of opening an apt mirror takes upwards of a > minute, but the actual file transfers happen quite fast over my DSL. > > First I thought this might be alleviated by forcing apt to do passive > ftp transfers using the apt.conf line 'Acquire::ftp::passive "true";', > but this didn't help. > > Because the linux machine is behind a NAT firewall that might have > been causing grief, I tried setting apt-setup to use http, though > this didn't help. So I set apt.conf to include 'Acquire::http::Proxy' > of my firewall's http proxy. While apt was happy to now use my proxy, > it still took about a minute to connect. > > Now, I've been watching my firewall's debug output, and after the > apt-setup program DNS queries the mirror's name, nothing happens > for a minute or so, then suddenly a burst of http requests flow by > as it retrieves the files. > > I've tried looking through the archive and searched google a million > different ways, but have failed utterly to find an answer to this.
Try using a local mirror. http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors > Also! If anyone is still reading: The debian install guide makes > absolutely no mention of the apt.conf options and I had to look > far and wide to stumble on the apt.conf man page because by that > stage of my net install man pages were not yet available... Typically there's no need to mess with apt.conf. I've never touched mine (my apt.conf, that is). -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
