Re: dselect and resolving
On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote:
> Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu:
> > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote:
> > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 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.
> > > >
> > > > Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ?
> > > > If you did, apt-get update (or dselect -> update) should check your
> > > > mirror.
> > >
> > > For "dselect", "apt-get update" is not enough. You need to make sure
> > > to run "dselect update". That what previous post by a debian
> > > developer, as I remember.
> > >
> > > > Usually they still will connect to the public server for download
> > > > since probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server
> >
> > This machine was built on the private network from my mirror, not from
> > the the public server. The problem is that now that the machine is in the
> > DMZ it is it is using my dns which is resolving to the public address,
> > not what is in it's hosts file.
>
> Let me get that right: your mirror is named http.us.debian.org in your
> hosts file?
No, my host file contains an entry for:
enterprisepenguin.com LOCAL IP
my sources.list file has entries:
http://enterprisepenguin.com/distributions/debian/
and dselect tries to connect to my public IP for enterprisepenguin.com rather
then the LOCAL IP in the hosts file.
> That is not the correct way to do it, name it anything else (mirror for
> ex.) and update the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to this address.
>
> Michel.
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