Server problem with cdimages.ubuntu.com

Tim Frost timfrost at xtra.co.nz
Wed Jan 25 20:25:40 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 19:06 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 07:51:45PM +0100, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> > I'm sometimes having trouble accessing
> > 
> > http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/
> > 
> > home of the "Flight" milestones.
> > 
> > At certain times of the day, this address resolves to Bazaar instead. 
> > Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> 
> Try the correct URL instead:
> 
>   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/
> 
> I think only one of the cdimage mirrors is configured to reply for
> cdimages.
> 

DNS tells me that cdimages.ubuntu.com is a CNAME:
tim at marvin:~$ dig cdimages.ubuntu.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> cdimages.ubuntu.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16744
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cdimages.ubuntu.com.           IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cdimages.ubuntu.com.    1800    IN      CNAME   cdimage.ubuntu.com.
cdimage.ubuntu.com.     591     IN      A       82.211.81.176
cdimage.ubuntu.com.     591     IN      A       82.211.81.155

;; Query time: 372 msec
;; SERVER: 202.27.184.3#53(202.27.184.3)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 26 09:20:48 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 91




So both hosts *need* to be configured to respond to BOTH URLS


Tim




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