Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 6 Mar 2000 07:36:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 26464 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2000 07:36:50 -0000 Received: from marilyn.plannet.de (root@194.162.80.3) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 6 Mar 2000 07:36:50 -0000 Received: from mia (irene.plannet.de [194.162.80.12]) by marilyn.planNET.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09459; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:36:44 +0100 Received: from paola.int.plannet.de ([192.168.215.31] helo=paola ident=mail) by mia with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12Rs4K-0003Bz-00; Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:36:44 +0100 Received: from haber by paola with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12Rs4J-0007uw-00; Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:36:43 +0100 From: debian-bugs@marc-haber.de Subject: apt: unreachable servers have to time out multiple times To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 3.2.10 Message-Id: Sender: Debian Linux User Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:36:43 +0100 Package: apt Version: 0.3.18 Severity: wishlist My sources.list has entries for multiple ftp servers. This works fine if all servers are reachable; in case that one of the servers is de-synced, apt-get fetches the latest packages from different servers. However, when some servers are unreachable, apt-get tries it over and over, waiting for timeouts multiple times. I'd love to see apt-get cache unreachable servers for some time (maybe an hour) and not to retry it with this kind of persistence. Greetings Marc -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux paola 2.2.14 #1 Sun Feb 27 15:41:04 CET 2000 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-6 The GNU stdc++ library