On Sun 26 Aug 2012 at 11:49:57 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:

> I'm not sure where the http://http.debian.net/debian came from. Most
> mirrors are in the form ftp.??.debian.org/debian, where the ?? are
> the country code. I can't ping the http.debian.net url either and I
> have a working Internet connection.

brian@desktop:~$ ping http.debian.net
PING http.debian.net (174.142.22.90) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com (174.142.22.90): icmp_req=1 ttl=49 time=107 
ms
64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com (174.142.22.90): icmp_req=2 ttl=49 time=108 
ms
64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com (174.142.22.90): icmp_req=3 ttl=49 time=107 
ms
64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com (174.142.22.90): icmp_req=4 ttl=49 time=107 
ms
64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com (174.142.22.90): icmp_req=5 ttl=49 time=107 
ms

Have a read of

   http://http.debian.net/

to get an idea of what the redirector does.


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