On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:20:28, Britton Kerin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep > failing. > Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always > fail. > > I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or something?
As you might see on http://www.debian.org/mirror/list ftp.us.debian.org is actually several mirrors that are being rotated and you may have hit one that just has problems. You could either try again, try a specific one from the rotation or try some other mirror in the US (there are lots of them). Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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