mirror trouble

I'm trying to mirror sarge and etch, i386, main contrib non-free.

apt-get update (on any etch system on the LAN -- don't know about sarge yet)
says:

pblinux:~# apt-get update
Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch Release.gpg
Bad header line
Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch Release.gpg
Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch Release
Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch Release
Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages
Get: 1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/non-free Packages
Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages
Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages
Bad header line
Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/non-free Packages
Bad header line
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/contrib Packages
Bad header line
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages
Bad header line
Fetched 1B in 2s (0B/s)
Failed to fetch
http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg Bad header
line Failed to fetch
http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.
gz Bad header line Failed to fetch
http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/non-free/binary-i386/Packa
ges.gz Bad header line Failed to fetch
http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/contrib/binary-i386/Packag
es.gz Bad header line Failed to fetch
http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/marillat-i386/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Pa
ckages.gz Bad header line Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.

(excuse line wrapping, please)

The mirrors are maintained with debmirror via mkdebmirror. If I put
debmirror's remote source in sources.list, apt-get reports no errors. And the
security repository is OK.

If I look at Packages.gz with firefox (it evidently unzips it -- hexedit shows
the .gz is definitely not ASCII), there is no header at all; it starts off
with a package description. If I get a copy of the file, gunzip has no
problem unzipping it, so the gzip header seems OK..

I haven't looked at Releases.gpg.

Why do the local files (all the meta-files?) have "bad headers"; is apt-get
complaining about gzip headers or apt package file headers; and what can I do
about it?

TIA...

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Glenn English
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