[ale] URLs for Debian updating ?

[Raylynn Knight]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 21:14 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> `deb ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/dists <release_name> main contrib`
> 
If your using Debian on anything other than Intel/AMD hardware this
mirror appears to be useless.

> I would suggest adding that to your sources list (replacing
> "<release_name>" appropriately), but it seems to be unresponsive right
> now. It may be experiencing some difficulties from recently changing
> addresses. Other than that -- http://www.us.debian.org/mirrors/

I've never had any difficulties using http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
I'm not sure if you have a typo or you are leaving off the ftp.  I also
have http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian in my sources.list.

> On 10/16/06, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > I am trying to update a 5 yr old box [2.4.17] and am using
> > http://us.debian.org
> > and find it to be halting too often. Too busy I guess.
> >
> > What are some fast current URLs for this purpose, please  ?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Courtney
> >
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