Hi My adjacent debian mirror, gulus.usherbrooke.ca, goes off and on often. I need to access my 2nd choice when it is down. So I have to change my apt sources.list, pull down all the package lists from it before I can do anything.
Now I'm thinking, I should put an persistent entry 'debian-mirror' in my /etc/hosts, eg: 132.194.22.137 cudlug.cudenver.edu debian-mirror so when I need to change my debian mirror, I just need to change this one line in my etc/hosts file, no changing sources.list, no pulling down package info that I've already got, no redundant files under /var/lib/apt/lists/... all in all, this would be the easiest to manage solution. However, although I could do 'ping debian-mirror', 'apt-cache search', when doing 'apt-get update', it reported Could not resolve 'debian-mirror' So, is there any way to make the above plan works? PS, I also have my cache-only DNS server installed. thank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
