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Re: dselect and resolving



Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 13:50, John Cichy escreveu:
> Hello all,
> 
> It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a 
> debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an 
> internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring 
> that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to 
> make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry :
> 
> order hosts,bind
> 
> so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file.
> 
> TIA,
> John
> 

Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ?
If you did, apt-get update (or dselect -> update) should check your
mirror.

Usually they still will connect to the public server for download since
probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server

Michel.




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