On 19 July 2014 02:45, Ben Wong <bugs.debian....@wongs.net> wrote: > When running netselect through the netselect-apt script, netselect is > repeatedly returning one host (debian.asis.io) as having a negative > score. Since other roundrobin sites seem to work, I'm wondering if > this may be due to a misconfiguration of that particular site. Be that > as it may, the netselect program should never output corrupted data. >
You are right, of course. Netselect should never output a negative number. I have to check if the 0.4 version provided by upstream also exhibits this behaviour (we have forked a lot from the 0.3 release). > The negative numbers cause netselect-apt to incorrectly think that the > host "-" is the fastest server (see bug #750952). You may be able to > reproduce this bug by simply running netselect-apt (with no arguments) > and seeing if it outputs such nonsense as this: > In my case the "fastest" servers are different. Netselect output depends on network conditions and my "10 fastest" list does not include any server with a '-' I haven't looked at the netselect code yet, but I have a hunch as to > where the bug may be. I notice that, unlike other roundrobin sites, > debian.asis.io does not have proper reverse DNS entries. For example, > > (...) Thank you for investigating this issue. I have not reviewed the code but will try to fix it there using this host (debian.asis.io) as a reference. Best regards Javier
