Bug#852037: debian-installer: Download after mirror selection not possible: problems to resolve DNS
Hi Sebastian,
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:04:12PM +0100, Sebastian Niehaus wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>Severity: grave
>Tags: d-i
>Justification: renders package unusable
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>yesterday I downloaded the current Netinstall iso image for stretch to
>install stretch on a new maschine (Laptop with wired ethernet and wifi)
>
>everything worked fine including DHCP configuration. But whe I tried to select a debian
>mirror i was prompted there was an error due to a network problem or to an mirror
>lackingg the requested debian version or platform although it was available on that mirror.
>
>Tried to find a workaround:
>
>it became clear there was some problem with DNS resolition: ping www.google.com failed because of
>failure to resolve the domain name.
ACK, this has been identified as a problem already - see #851790. Hopefully will be
fixed in a build shortly.
>
>On mirror selection I chose to enter the data manually and I entered the IP of my mirror server
>instead of its FQDN and it worked than.
>
>
>/etc/resolve.conf had the DNS server my DHCP server announces - no idea what went wrong.
>
>
>Thank you very much, everything else worked flawless for me.
>
>
>Sebastian
>
>
>
>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: 9.0
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
>Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
>
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