Hello, Because I live in the US I prefer to use ftp.us.debian.org as my mirror of choice in my apt source, however every once in a while I have problems with it, which makes me think I should give up and use a different mirror. I think the correct solution though is to fix the bad mirror, since its a choice I expect many users/newbies use when they first install Debian in the US.
Today I went to install software on a matched pair of servers, and apt-get update worked fine on the first one. "host ftp.us.debian.org" on the first one shows the following: :~# apt-get update <snip> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources Fetched 2B in 0s (5B/s) Reading package lists... Done :~# host ftp.us.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36 ftp.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.39 ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225 ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52 A half second later I did the same thing on the other server and I get: :~# apt-get update <snip> Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [5621kB] 99% [3 Packages gzip 0] gzip: stdin: not in gzip format Err http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Fetched 3B in 0s (4B/s) Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Reading package lists... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. :~# host ftp.us.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.39 ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225 ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52 ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36 I tried it several times and i got the same error. This leads me to the conclusion that something's wrong with 204.152.191.39. I've had this same thing happen before but I don't know if it was on 204.152.191.39 or not. I switched the second server to ftp.d.o and it works fine. Can someone look into this? Thanks, JW -- ---------------------- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com http://jwadmin.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
