Re: Help!!!! If I'm to get debian up, I need help solving this...
On Thursday 02 September 2004 23:40, Chris Stockwell wrote:
> dear debian users,
>
> OK, here's the problem: I for the life of me can't connect to the
> online apt sources. dhcp IS finding the cards...and I CAN ping the
> net. I really WANT to use debian,,,,but things are beginning to look
> doubtful. I've configured apt sources in all the ways I can think,
> ftp, http, manually. Are the servers not responding to apt requests?
> I can point my browser (in windows or knoppix ) there. I'm just
> frustrated as heck
>
> Failed to fetch
>
> <http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/pac
>kages>http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386
>/packages Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0),
> connection timed out Failed to fetch
It looks like perhaps your DNS server(s) didn't get set up. What does
cat /etc/resolv.conf show?
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