Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

From: Russ Schneider (russ_at_sugapablo.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    Alright, I just started using Debian after being mainly a Mandrake user.

    Installed Woody and I know most of the packages like Apache, etc. need
    upgrades.

    But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get upgrade use different
    servers? Are they mirrored?

    I was looking through the US server http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/, but
    I couldn't find any packages, only lists of packages.

    Needless to say I'm confused as to what servers I can put in sources.list
    at this time.

    Is
    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    still up?

    Could someone provide for me a line like that for updated packages for
    sources.list that lists a currently available server (if one is
    available)?

    (This box will be online as soon as the UPS man brings me my new router.) 

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