Proposed Repositories - GPG errors

[NoOp]

On 11/09/2009 08:07 AM, Heike C. Zimmerer wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Apparently, as I'm getting the same now. That server is the same as
archive.ubuntu.com. Either way the server(s) is nowhere closed to being
located in the United States which, according to the Synaptic/Software
Sources repository selection is listed as "Server for United States" on
my systems (locale US).