Am 23/12/2017 um 6:43 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
> Hi,
>
> Jaromil writes:
>
>> dear devs,
>>
>> today we activated the round-robin feature on package repositories,
>> served from the deb.devuan.org dns entry that rotates across several
>> mirrors.
>>
>> please do try this feature using http://deb.devuan.org
>
> I did and ran `apt-get update` a couple of times using this sources.list.
>

>   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-security  main
>   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-updates   main
>   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ jessie           main
>   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports main

>
> Things seem to be *mostly* okay. Twice I got 404s though for all of the
> entries. IP addresses for those cases are:
>
> 185.26.197.8
> 185.183.113.129
>
> Hope this helps,
Thanks for the report Olaf, I just assumed it'd work and hadn't had the
occasion to test it.

Just now I manually cycled (with a local hosts file) through the IPs
that dig deb.devuan.org spits out and tested 'deb.devuan.org' on a
browser, have following remarks:

192.80.24.194: only serves debian and debian-security --> no go.
185.26.197.8: serves an empty page, /merged/ is a 404 --> no go
91.121.196.103: serves a page with a text, /merged/ is a 404 --> no go
185.183.113.129: serves packages under /devuan/ --> no go
5.196.38.18: actually works
37.187.111.86: also works
91.102.134.99: also works

So, right now 4/7 = 57% of the IPs in the RR are broken '^^.

This also made me realise: we need a way to check mirrors in the RR and
to remove those that are faulty / get awfully outdated.
--
Evilham