On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:07:54 +0100, Roby  declaimed the
following:


>The result is this:
>wget
>\http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages
>converted
>'http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages
'
>(ANSI_X3.4-1968) ->
>'http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages
'
>(UTF-8)
>--2017-06-24 01:48:41--
>http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages
>Resolving archive.raspberrypi.org (archive.raspberrypi.org)...
>93.93.128.230, 93.93.130.39, 93.93.135.188, ...
>Connecting to archive.raspberrypi.org
>(archive.raspberrypi.org)|93.93.128.230|:80... connected.
>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>2017-06-24 01:48:41 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>

 It appears that archive.raspberrypi.org is not a single host...

C:\Users\Wulfraed>ping archive.raspberrypi.org -4

Pinging lb.raspberrypi.org [93.93.130.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 93.93.130.104: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=48
Reply from 93.93.130.104: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=48
Reply from 93.93.130.104: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=48
Reply from 93.93.130.104: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 93.93.130.104:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 113ms, Maximum = 113ms, Average = 113ms

C:\Users\Wulfraed>

yet...

pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$ sudo ping archive.raspberrypi.org
PING lb.raspberrypi.org (46.235.227.11) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=119 ms
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=116 ms
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=120 ms
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=123 ms
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=122 ms
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=6 ttl=48 time=120 ms
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=7 ttl=48 time=122 ms
64 bytes from 46.235.227.11: icmp_seq=8 ttl=48 time=121 ms
^C
--- lb.raspberrypi.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 9959ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 116.215/120.671/123.239/2.035 ms
pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$ sudo ping archive.raspberrypi.org
PING lb.raspberrypi.org (93.93.128.133) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 93.93.128.133: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=117 ms
64 bytes from 93.93.128.133: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=112 ms
64 bytes from 93.93.128.133: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=113 ms
^Z

 That makes THREE IP# that are considered "archive.raspberrypi.org" --
not counting the one you are reaching.

pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$ host archive.raspberrypi.org
archive.raspberrypi.org is an alias for lb.raspberrypi.org.
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.128.211
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.135.188
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 46.235.227.11
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.130.214
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.130.104
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.128.230
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.130.39
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.128.133
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:6
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:7
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:9
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:5
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:5
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:7
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:6
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:8
pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$ host lb.raspberrypi.org
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.128.230
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 46.235.227.11
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.135.188
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.130.104
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.130.214
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.130.39
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.128.211
lb.raspberrypi.org has address 93.93.128.133
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:7
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:6
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:7
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:5
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:13:0:8
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:6
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:9
lb.raspberrypi.org has IPv6 address 2a00:1098:0:82:1000:13:0:5
pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$

 Total of 8 IP #s with no promise of which will be reached. Either your
remote node is always hitting a host that is misconfigured compared to the
others... or something strange is going on and your requests are being
rerouted to some third-party spoofing the IP.



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