Re: etch repository problems ? - apt-get, aptitude, synaptic

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:08:41 -0600
> "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> wrote:
>
> > Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:33:46 -0600
> > > "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a problem with the Debian etch repository?  With the
> > > > following "/etc/apt/sources.list", synaptic stops with the error
> > > > message: "Could not download all repository indexes"
> > > >
> > > >    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
> > > >    deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free
> > > > contrib
> > > >
> > > >    deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
> > > >    deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main non-free
> > > > contrib
> > > >
> > > >    deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> > > > non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
> > > > contrib non-free
> > > The mirrors.kernel.org sources appear to be a Debian mirror, and so
> > > are not needed in addition to the ftp.us.debian.org sources. Other
> > > than that, I can't see a problem.
> > "aptitude update" hangs with the message "[waiting for headers]".
>
> Try a different Debian mirror. Choose one from the list at
> http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
>
> > And with synaptic, I get a very strange message:
> >
> > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg: Could not
> > connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection
> > refused)
> >
> > http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg: Could not
> > connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection
> > refused)
>
> Is Synaptic configured to use a proxy server? Look under Preferences,
> Network.
>
> > But I am able to send email with Thunderbird (this message) and to
> > browse normally.  Is something on my Debian etch i386 machine broken?

Another clue:  the mailer daemon on this machine sent me a message 
saying that the remote SMTP server at my ISP rejected the sender address 
of a message because the domain was not found.  The sender address is:

    rlh@hostname.LANname

where hostname and LANname have meaning only within my local area network.

I always have used these names when configuring Exim; but something 
unknown to me has changed.  What is the solution?  What other names can 
I use?

RLH