On 24/03/12 16:06, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> >> On 24/03/12 07:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sb, 17 mar 12, 21:33:30, Scott Ferguson wrote: <snipped>
> > Actually... > > Slight correction - I haven't used Smoothwall Express for about a year, > now. > My mistake - I read too much into the timing of your post to debian-firewalls. > I have been using Firestarter (which, unfortunately, appears to now be > unsupported, and, abandoned by developers and maintainers). > > I thgink that the Debian Project term for the status of Firestarter, > now, is "orphaned". > > But, anyway, it has been Firestarter that I have been using, not > Smoothwall. Firestarter just creates rules for iptables whereas Smoothwall includes a caching DNS server (I haven't used it for some years, I use IPCop instead). Your modem/router may include a caching DNS server, your ISP will. > > That is behind the firewall that is in the ADSL modem/router. I do not > know what that firewall is. As Andrei pointed out - the mirror you were trying to use is one served by a DNS round-robin. So if repeated requests to http://http.us.debian.org or ftp.us.debian.org keep getting the same IP address then you're probably being served by a (possibly stale) DNS cache. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > .................................................... > > Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f6d5d33.9060...@gmail.com