Problems with US archive?

[Derek Broughton]

stan wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:02:46PM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote:
>> stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm trying to build a new machine. I keep getting the following error:
>> >
>> > Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Sources
>> > Get:27 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages [1217kB]
>> > 36% [27 Packages gzip 0] [26 Packages 238617/3497kB 6%]
>> > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>> >
>> > When I try to do apt-get update. This is on 6.10 and AMD64.
>> >
>> > Is there another repository I can use?
>> 
>> Try the Canadian one.  Basically, the first two letter is the country
>> code.
> Thanks, that solved my problem. BTW I had tried to ping the Canadian one
> earlier with no luck. Maybe they are upgrading something today.

I gave up using ca.archive.ubuntu.com at least a year ago.  I found it
completely unreliable.  I just stick to archive.ubuntu.com these days.
-- 
derek