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

[Jaakov]

>> 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?
Yes. Can you redirect the bug report appropriately?

"aptitude update" says (in German):

...
Holen: 42 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/contrib Translation-en 
[45,0 kB]
Holen: 43 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main Translation-fi [105 kB]
Feh ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main Translation-fi
   Datei konnte nicht heruntergeladen werden; Server meldet: »Failed to 
open file.  « [IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xx]
...

"apt-get install libreoffice" says (in German):

...
Holen:4 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 
libreoffice-evolution amd64 1:5.1.1-1 [82,3 kB]
Holen:5 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 libreoffice-gnome 
amd64 1:5.1.1-1 [51,7 kB] 

Fehl:5 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 libreoffice-gnome 
amd64 1:5.1.1-1 

   Passiver Socket konnte nicht verbunden werden. [IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xx]
...

Above, the IP was anonymized.