On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:24:56PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Except that apt is meant to apply that timeout only once per host, and > thereafter assume that the host is bad and give up. This appears to > have regressed from 8.04.
Right, that's the sensible thing to do and we should certainly get this fixed - but in the *best* case, you're still waiting for 30 seconds or so for a connection that's going to fail, right? Being able to avoid having to wait for *any* timeout, either with a preseed like Mario suggests or by having the network configured accurately, would seem to shave ~3% off the *pre-regression* install time, which I guess is nothing to sneeze at when multiplied by N machines. Mario, any chance that a change to the DHCP server (i.e., not handing out a default route) would be viable, and give you a short-term workaround while this is being sorted? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- System takes forever trying to contact uncontactable sources during install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556831 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
