Re: apt: Uses bogus ftp password on ftp:// urls
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 07:54:57PM +0200, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
> ********************************************************************************
> Get ftp://ftp.inka.de hamm/binary-i386/ Packages
> 0% [Packages `Authenticating' 0]Please use your e-mail address as your password
> for example: joe@max2-239.public.uni-hamburg.de or joe@
> [max2-239.public.uni-hamburg.de will be added if password ends with @]
> Login incorrect.
> Error ftp://ftp.inka.de hamm/binary-i386/ Packages
> Failed to login to ftp.inka.de:The response 'fh@nowhere' is not valid
[skip]
> Debian Release: 2.0
> Kernel Version: Linux nowhere 2.0.33 #8 Fri May 8 10:28:28 CEST 1998 i586
> unknown
There's your problem! Your hostname seems to be 'nowhere', which is
not a legitimate hostname. I've never found a really good solution,
but the best seems to be to give yourself some iminary hostname and add
it to /etc/hosts - but it has to have more than one segment.
Dan
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