Some internet providers change the IP address of clients frequently -
approximately once a minute instead of once a day. "aptitude update"
and aptitude downloads executed by such clients cannot deal with this
fact - neither with passive nor with active sockets. They manage to
download a bit before the IP change and then say that a socket cannot
be connected.
An improvement is needed. If it's already implemented, I'd like to see
the documentation of this feature.
aptitude doesn't use sockets directly, the download functionality
happens through libapt, so I don't think that we can do much about it.
The problem also happens when using apt, I suppose?
Yes. Can you redirect the bug report appropriately?
"aptitude update" says (in German):
...
Holen: 42 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/contrib Translation-en
[45,0 kB]
Holen: 43 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main Translation-fi [105 kB]
Feh ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main Translation-fi
Datei konnte nicht heruntergeladen werden; Server meldet: »Failed to
open file. « [IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xx]
...
"apt-get install libreoffice" says (in German):
...
Holen:4 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64
libreoffice-evolution amd64 1:5.1.1-1 [82,3 kB]
Holen:5 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 libreoffice-gnome
amd64 1:5.1.1-1 [51,7 kB]
Fehl:5 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 libreoffice-gnome
amd64 1:5.1.1-1
Passiver Socket konnte nicht verbunden werden. [IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xx]
...
Above, the IP was anonymized.
