On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:09:26PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > All the packages search results have ftp:// in front of the href. This is a > > problem when going to http.us. > > How so? > > auric!joey(pts/23):~> wget > ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/devel/libmm10_1.0.11-1.deb > [...] > 16:08:38 (98.35 KB/s) - `libmm10_1.0.11-1.deb' saved [11682] > > http.us should be a round robin rotation and I guess the servers also > provide ftp.
Indeed, http.us.debian.org is perhaps confusingly named, since FTP (and rsync) works just fine on each of the hosts behind that name. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
