apt-get & ftp.gwdg.de: connection timeout errors

From: Tristan Miller (psychonaut_at_nothingisreal.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:07:12 +0200

Greetings.

I recently installed apt4rpm according to the instructions at
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/. When I try to update the list of
packages, the first batch downloads fine, but all subsequent ones report
connection timeout errors (see below). Playing around manually with ftp,
it seems that the ftp.gwdg.de server doesn't permit back-to-back
connections; I have to wait a couple minutes between each FTP session
before I can connect again.

Has anyone else encountered this problem, and if so, is there any way of
modifying apt-get's behaviour to pause between FTP connections?

Regards,
Tristan

port-3108:~ # apt-get update
Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386 release [8798B]
Fetched 8798B in 0s (16.7kB/s)
Err ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/packman pkglist
  Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/packman release
  Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/packman-i686 pkglist
  Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/packman-i686 release
  Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/base pkglist
  Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100), connection timed out 

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