-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Content-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1407250404310.4179@minas-tirith.valinor> El 2014-07-24 a las 18:23 -0400, Brian K. White escribió:
There is a round-robin thing in effect where the the same name does not always resolve to the same ip, or even the same TYPE of ip (ipv4 vs ipv6).
You could ping that hostname 4 times in a row and see that it t flip flops between two different IP's. (separate ping commands, not just letting one ping command ping for 4 seconds.)
That's not a good test for this case. The download server may use some kind of round robin IP, maybe. But when you actually request a package from it, you get an http redirection to another mirror, by name, not by IP, which changes depending on your location and availability (it is the Mirror Brain, if I recall the name correctly). And this mirror name your machine resolves again, and they may as well use another load balancing method of their own. It is far from simple. The Mirror Brain is not exactly transparent, the actual mirror you get redirected to should be logged in your logs. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlPRvGkACgkQja8UbcUWM1yeGwD9FikZmMoREcnkbjMSf2RaOHIB Tf+eEsHVe83vbH/OEkgBAIpDyxciqWqBcsTMxhyw9pJGvDeXbHhL1GVskVOpVL99 =TAIK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----