ftp/www.ca.debian.org has been going through some changes recently (try: http://osource.org/), last week I couldn't use them at all, this week they are back (www.ca.debian.org looks like Debian again and the ftp.ca.debian.org link in the download pages works).
-- On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: > How often are the debian mirrors updated? > > I just installed potato a couple days ago, using the > Canadian pkg mirror at ftp.ca.debian.org. Today, I > ran apt-get update; apt-get upgrade for the first > time, and got 0 packages updated. On a hunch, I changed > my sources.list to point to http.us.debian.org, and > reran the update/upgrade, and got 29 packages updated. > > Is this just an n-day lag between the primary site and > the mirror, or is ftp.ca.debian.org not being maintained? > If the former, how big is n? If it's just a couple days, > I can certainly live with that, but if it's much longer, > I'll stick to hitting the primary site. > > My transfer times are comparable (about 10-14.5 KB/s over > a 1M ADSL connection, which is pretty poor) between both > sites, though the US site is more variable -- I suspect > that's due to the higher load on the US site, since my > ISP has good connectivity to the US backbone.