Re: schein.debian.org

Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Gerald Turner a écrit :
>> 
>>   wget http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release
>> hangs, while:
>>   wget http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release.gpg
>> succeeds.
>> 
>> Running 'dig +trace security.debian.org AAAA' always returns the same
>> address,
>>   security.debian.org.  300  IN  AAAA  2001:4f8:8:36::6
>> which is schein.debian.org.
> [...]
>> Only wget to http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release
>> seems to fail (other files fail as well, Packages.gz, Sources.gz,
>> etc.).
>> 
>> Can anyone else confirm or deny IPv6 security updates mirror at
>> schein.debian.org is operational
>
> It works for me.
> Could it be an MTU/MSS/fragmentation issue ? Release is only 836 bytes
> in size, which I believe can fit in one single packet. Other files
> such as Release are bigger. Could you try again after lowering the MTU
> of the interface (I use 1460) ? A packet capture may help too.
>

Indeed fetching the signature fits in a single packet where as Release
is 37K.  I've captured the packets, only odd thing that I can make of it
is that the last packet from schein (after ^C in wget) has wireshark
SEQ/ACK analysis of "A segment before this frame was lost".

>> (virtual host, security.debian.org, makes this a bit difficult to
>> test)?
>
> wget --header="Host: security.debian.org"
> http://schein.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release

Thanks for the tip.

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