From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:43:07 GMT
Subject: Re: 'bad file' error updating from Linus
Message-ID: <43345ACB.1080201@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509221630200.2553@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Nope, it's not.
> 
> It just depends on which IP address you happen to get when you look at 
> www.kernel.org.
> 
> www.kernel.org resolves to two addresses:
> 
> 	Name:   zeus-pub.kernel.org
> 	Address: 204.152.191.5
> 	Name:   zeus-pub.kernel.org
> 	Address: 204.152.191.37
> 
> and the .5 address is working, but the .37 address has the broken mirror.
> 
> I thought hpa took it out of service while it was re-syncing, but 
> apparently not. 
> 

Well, it had resynched, but the time and date stamp on the 
refs/heads/master file were correct - just the data wrong - so rsync 
didn't flag the file.  I forced rsync --checksum and it's correct now.

	-hpa