Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

[hhding <hhding.gnu@gmail.com>]

first of all, pls examine setting of your DNS --- the file /etc/resolv.conf

Can your resolv the domain name such as www.google.com?
And can you access it? pls try to test the accessability by wget 
http://www.google.com.

If it works for you, please try to resolve the domain name of 
mirror.pacific.net.au.
if it does not work, try wget http://61.8.0.17/debian.

if it works for your, replace mirror.pacific.net.au with 61.8.0.17 in 
/etc/apt/sources.list

run apt-get update and apt-get install openssh-server to install the ssh 
server.

anyway, you should try to find out why the DNS does not work or ask the 
administrator for help.

Steve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I
> can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows
> box using putty or similar).  I've tried openssh but of course that is
> a client.  Can anyone tell me where to start looking.  I'm guessing
> that it's a daemon that I need to run.
>
> Other problem that I'm getting is if I run aptitude or dselect, I get
> a time out when trying to connect to mirror.pacific.net.au.  It shows
> an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which would suggest to me a problem with
> named, however if I ping it, all is fine.
>
> Any suggestions that anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers.  Steve
>
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