On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Or at least fall back to the other IPs if the first one gives an > > > error? > > I hope that this already happens... > > apt doesn't know anything about round robin dns, and especially with > secure apt, if one mirror gets out of sync things break horribly. This
Time to devise a way to teach it about that, then. HOW to do it is the big problem, though. How should one deal with round-robin DNS mirrors which are supposed to be equal, but are not. What are the failure modes to cater for? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
