On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 03:10:06PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > dalton has dnsmasq. From distant recollection, name resolution failed when > the system was running and dnsmasq was not. That motivated direct reference > to IP addresses. To the best of my knowledge, an IP address should suffice > to > identify a server or possibly a cluster of them.
An entry in /etc/hosts would probably be a better choice. In the case of HTTP requests, the hostname needs to be sent inside the request to identify the correct virtual host. (Now, maybe that particular mirror isn't on a virtual host, but in general, most HTTP requests *should* be treated as virtual hosts. Using a raw IP address in the URL typically won't get you the right result.)
