Re: Proxies used by ISP's ?

On Saturday 27 November 2004 04:00 pm, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> 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?
>

The same thing applies to apt-get and the mirrors in the sources.list
also.

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Greg Madden
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