Re: Proxies used by ISP's ?

From: Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net>
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 16:00:22 AKST

Hmmm... I am, as I write, mirroring ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/debian/ for the
i386 architechture. I avoid using US mirrors as they always seemed to be
too busy. I do not yet have sufficient experience with updating my
mirror to comment further.

fgd.

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:05:18PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> I have a Debian mirror that I update through a cron job. About a week
> ago I noticed that no new packages were being downloaded. I tried a
> different mirror with the same results. These were two mirrors that I
> regularly use, archive.progeny.com & linux.csua.berkley.edu. I switched
> to a third mirror, debian.oregonstate.edu and I get all the packages
> from the previous week.
>
> I was wondering if ISP's use proxies because on a Debian mirror certain
> files always have the same name, different dates of course. It seems
> like I am getting cached files that indicate that my mirror is up to
> date. Is this a likely scenario ? I use ACS, could it be ACS?
>
> TIA
> --
> Greg Madden
> Precision Air Balance, Inc.
> Phone: 907-276-0461
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