On Monday 11 February 2002 19:34, Thomas Cook wrote: > John Cichy wrote: > > [snip!] > > This has caused enough confusion! Why do you _need_ to use the symbolic > name for the mirror??? Why not just use the IP address in > sources.list? Like this: > > deb ftp://192.168.83.4/debian stable main contrib non-free
Because it is on a virtual server, if you use the IP you hit the top level server which does not have access to the directorys in question. > Regards > Tom
