Proposed Repositories - GPG errors

[Heike C. Zimmerer]

sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 19:00 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> ...
>> > 
> $ host us.archive.ubuntu.com
> us.archive.ubuntu.com is an alias for ubuntu-archive.acc.umu.se.
> ubuntu-archive.acc.umu.se has address 130.239.18.165
> [..]
> So all US ubuntu users that have deb repository entries pointing to
> us.archive.ubuntu.com in their /etc/apt/sources.list are getting their
> updates and upgrades from servers located on a Swedish university
> campus. 

No.  Here (.de):

$ host us.archive.ubuntu.com
us.archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.134
us.archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.135
[..]
$ whois 91.189.88.134
[..]
inetnum:        91.189.88.0 - 91.189.95.255
netname:        CANONICAL-CORE
descr:          Canonical Ltd
country:        GB
[..]

There's probably some load balancing going on.

Heike