Hello all,

debian-mirrors should be able to provide more insight into this matter,
so CC'ing them.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:08:33AM +1930, David Leon wrote:
> I'm currently having problems updating Lenny from ftp.us.debian.org.
> It seems one of the mirrors has stale information for its Release and
> Release.gpg file:
> 
> Sometimes when I connect with a browser I get this:
> Index of /debian/dists/lenny
> [...]
> Release                 27-Jun-2009 18:18   72K        <------------
> Release.gpg             27-Jun-2009 18:27  1.0K      <------------
> 
> [...]
> Our current problem is that apt-mirror downloaded the Release file
> from one site and Release.gpg from another, so obviously the signature
> check fails and all packages are not authenticated.
> 
> Checking ftp.us.debian.org with dig says
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ftp.us.debian.org.    300     IN      A       128.30.2.36
> ftp.us.debian.org.    300     IN      A       149.20.20.135

This one is it: mirrors1.kernel.org appears to not have fully sync'ed
for a few days (at least).

> ftp.us.debian.org.    300     IN      A       35.9.37.225
> ftp.us.debian.org.    300     IN      A       64.50.236.52
> 
> We've fixed this by manually using ctrl-F5 from a browser until our
> proxy cached the right Release file, but that is less than ideal. Are
> we getting old DNS information or are the mirrors out of sync?

debian-mirrors, please comment (and keep debian-user in CC).

TIA,
Flo

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