On Thu 06 May 2021 at 08:43:22 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-05-06 at 08:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 08:33:47AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-05-06 at 08:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >> > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 07:00:02AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> > > > ISTR that > >> > > > this is the second complaint about this mirror not working correctly > >> > > > we've seen in the past week or three; whether they are from different > >> > > > people, or both from the same, I don't know. Six days ago, and 11 timezones apart. > >> > Maybe this helps (though it might be outdated): > >> > > >> > https://deb.debian.org > >> > >> That's the mirror auto-selector which the original complainant here was > >> using, and which apparently chose debian.map.fastlydns.net as the mirror > >> to be used, which led to the error which was the subject of the complaint. > >> > >> IOW, I think that site is part of the problem (in that it has a broken > >> mirror listed), but I don't see how it could help. Is there a part of > >> your suggestion I'm not understanding? > > > > I believe the suggestion was that you actually *go* to that web page > > in your web browser and read what it says. It's fairly short. > > I did, and I didn't see how it was helpful, thus my question. I went there too, once I realised that it was a reference to be browsed, rather than something to do with one's sources.list.¹ > > To be fair, though, it'll basically reiterate advice that was > > already given in this thread ("try a different mirror"). I thought the page rather full of gobbledegook, talking about SRV records and CDN instances. As for trying a different mirror, the only occurrence of "mirror" is "This service provides mirrors for the following Debian archive repositories". And the instance chosen, "cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org" is not actually among these mysterious SRV records, "_http._tcp.deb.debian.org", "prod.debian.map.fastly.net" and "dpvctowv9b08b.cloudfront.net" that we're not even told how to obtain. > Which might help in the immediate term, but doesn't get the actual > problem fixed, that problem being either with the mirror or with the > configuration of the redirector to include that mirror. Yes, more useful might be a page something like one of these: https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/base-files/download that might get you back on your feet. ¹ Now after reading https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/msg00238.html I'm not even sure about that. I was under the impression, from this list, that https was best avoided in favour of http. Cheers, David.
