apt-get update oddity

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:02:20AM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> For some reason I have to run apt-get update twice..
> The first time I get a heap of failures.. the second time I get nearly
> all successful.
> Any idea why that might be?

I haven't seen this with the Ubuntu archives, but on my other machine 
running mostly Debian stuff, ftp.debian.org resolves to more than one 
server.  If one of them is down I will get a failure but if I retry it 
will often pick the other one.