[Aptitude-devel] Bug#818582: aptitude cannot deal with often changing IP

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Jaakov,

2016-03-18 09:56 Jaakov:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.7.5-3
>
>Some internet providers change the IP address of clients frequently - 
>approximately once a minute instead of once a day. "aptitude update" 
>and aptitude downloads executed by such clients cannot deal with this 
>fact - neither with passive nor with active sockets. They manage to 
>download a bit before the IP change and then say that a socket cannot 
>be connected.
>
>An improvement is needed. If it's already implemented, I'd like to see 
>the documentation of this feature.

aptitude doesn't use sockets directly, the download functionality
happens through libapt, so I don't think that we can do much about it.

The problem also happens when using apt, I suppose?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>