[Cialug]apt-get errors

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Thu Mar 2 08:58:33 CST 2006


I had the namservers i got from mediacom quit working recently (I had 
hard-coded them in /etc/resolv.conf based on what I got from dhcp when I 
first set up the box, but that was two yers ago), so I just replaced 
them with known good servers.  that fixed my problem

-barry


Dan Hockey wrote:
> I've tried some the suggestions here and then some. I tried to use 
> 205.152.191.39 which was mirrors.kernel.org which still didn't work.
> After digging some more I found I can ping all my internal computers 
> from the debian box  but nothing outside my network. This doesn't make 
> sense  because all my other computers ping the outside would just 
> fine.This is starting to look like a networking problem on the debian 
> box, but now I'm lost on what to look for next.
> has anyone else messed up debian this bad?
> -dh
> 
> Mark Hesseltine wrote:
> 
>> I've had pretty good luck using apt-spy prior to running apt-get. That
>> way, if your regular server is down, you can easily find another one.
>>
>> On 3/1/06, Anthony Jeffries <ajeffri at loopysite.org> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:49:34AM -0600, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
>>>   
>>>> or switch to or add a more local mirror
>>>>
>>>> I have good luck and good speed from debian.uchicago.edu
>>>>
>>>> you can run apt-setup to add a new source, and if one is down it will
>>>> try the next
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> I have good luck with mirrors.kernel.org.
>>>
>>> -- 
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