Anyone else having troubles with apt today? I tried to download packages and got a large amount of failed to retrieve error messages, I just tried to apt-get update and it says ... Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100). - connect (111 Connection refused) TIA -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
* Franklin Maurer (nebbish@sprynet.com) [030726 12:32]:
Anyone else having troubles with apt today? I tried to download packages and got a large amount of failed to retrieve error messages, I just tried to apt-get update and it says ... Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100). - connect (111 Connection refused)
It appears that gwdg.de is down which houses many mirrors and the apt repository for SuSE. They are probably doing maintence on it since it's in Germany and at this time 10PM on Saturday night in Germany. :) Give it a bit. I doubt it's down for good or for that long. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
Op zaterdag 26 juli 2003 21:36, schreef Franklin Maurer:
Anyone else having troubles with apt today? I tried to download packages and got a large amount of failed to retrieve error messages, I just tried to apt-get update and it says ... Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100). - connect (111 Connection refused)
TIA -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
Franklin, there is no =the= apt server.... http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/repos.html and look for suse. Try: http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/MIRROR.suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/examples/... or ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/examples/sources.list.FTP -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Saturday 26 July 2003 4:47 pm, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 26 juli 2003 21:36, schreef Franklin Maurer:
Anyone else having troubles with apt today? I tried to download packages and got a large amount of failed to retrieve error messages, I just tried to apt-get update and it says ... Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100). - connect (111 Connection refused)
Franklin,
there is no =the= apt server.... http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/repos.html and look for suse.
Try: http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/MIRROR.suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/examples /sources.list.FTP or ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/ examples/sources.list.FTP
Thanks Richard and Ben, I didn't know if there was a problem with my sources.list or "a" apt repositiory. :-) I always have problems with definitive articles, but that's a story for another time. It seems that it was a combination of the two. My entries for mirrors.mathematik and uni-erlangen.de were lacking a few entries. I just went on to the mathematik server and it seems it's a full mirror not the limited mirror that i thought it was. Since mathematik and ftp.gwdg.de are identical this brings a few questions to mind. Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings > repositories and been able to continue my downloading? Also does the order that the repositories are listed in sources.list matter? or does synaptic / apt choose the fastest server, just take turns between the servers, or simply use the first server in the list for the majority of the packages? TIA -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
Franklin Maurer wrote, On 07/27/2003 09:43 AM:
Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings > repositories and been able to continue my downloading?
I can't say what the answer is to your questions, but I know I have set up my sources list to get different components from all three servers, and it does indeed downloads from all three simultaneously (different things from each), and is effectively quite a bit faster. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
On Sunday 27 July 2003 12:41 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Franklin Maurer wrote, On 07/27/2003 09:43 AM:
Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings > repositories and been able to continue my downloading?
I can't say what the answer is to your questions, but I know I have set up my sources list to get different components from all three servers, and it does indeed downloads from all three simultaneously (different things from each), and is effectively quite a bit faster.
Thanks Joe and Richard, That cleared things up for me. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
Op zondag 27 juli 2003 03:43, schreef Franklin Maurer:
It seems that it was a combination of the two. My entries for mirrors.mathematik and uni-erlangen.de were lacking a few entries. I just went on to the mathematik server and it seems it's a full mirror not the limited mirror that i thought it was. Since mathematik and ftp.gwdg.de are identical this brings a few questions to mind.
I was surprised by mirrors.mathematik myself as well. It used to be that only the base components were mirrored.
Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings > repositories and been able to continue my downloading?
It's a combination of the 2.
Also does the order that the repositories are listed in sources.list matter? or does synaptic / apt choose the fastest server, just take turns between the servers, or simply use the first server in the list for the majority of the packages?
The fastest server should be listed 1st, the slowest at the bottom. You can use netselect to determine your fastest server. BTW netselect can be used to determine tha fastest YOU server as well.... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
participants (4)
-
Ben Rosenberg -
Franklin Maurer -
Joe Morris (NTM) -
Richard Bos