Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:59:17PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > > > Today the best one [1], for me, keeps dropping out while I'm > > > > upgrading. > > > > > > > > [1] debian.fifi.org > > > > > > > > > I use debian.midco.net and it always works great for me. > > > > VT1 root-3-ETCH:~# fping debian.midco.net > > debian.midco.net is unreachable > > > > VT1 root-3-ETCH:~# fping http://debian.midco.net > > http://debian.midco.net address not found > > > sounds like you have bigger problems... > > can you ping with ip address (debian.midco.net is 24.220.0.37). >
I can ping/update/upgrade to 2-3 mirrors anytime. Interesting, an fping of debian.midco.net as above, unreachable, but ping to either debian.midco.net or 24.220.0.37 does respond correctly. ping -C 5 -q debian.midco.net gets debian.midco.net : - - - - - which shows the response time in ms so it's just slow to respond or busy doing your upgrades. :-) ping -c 5 debian.midco.net shows 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4015ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7347.666/7644.392/7845.698/233.619 ms, pipe 5 ping -c 5 debian.fifi.org shows 5 packets transmitted, 3 received, 40% packet loss, time 4013ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6761.549/7377.889/7721.547/436.780 ms, pipe 5 3 out of 5 returned. That's may be why I was dropping out. Increasing the interval between pings from 25ms to 50ms on fifi shows ping -i50 -c 5 debian.fifi.org 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 200047ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7724.749/8273.221/9117.814/508.782 ms BTW gathered these results while a machine on the LAN is updating from mirror.kernel.org, and I see it has just completed the update. :-) I just checked my sources.list and find that, at one time, I did use debian.midco.net. They are commented out now and, as that list must go back 3-4 years at least, I don't recall why I switched from there. Looks like a plain fping is not a good indicator of Up/Down. I will use fping -C 5 -i50 in the future. Thanks for the brain kick, Andrew, I'm forgetting more and more lately and a good prod is always welcomed, here. After running debian for so long, 13 years now, I sometime forget that there are so many ways to 'skin the cat' with Unix/Linux that I shouldn't stop with just one test. This was fun! I enjoyed the exercise, thanks! Wayne -- It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
