Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:20:41PM -0800, 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.
This one rings a bell.
Try running:
host NAME_OF_THE_SERVER
IIRC this is a problem with the name resolution. I think you send it as
IPv^ (AAAA?), you get back a reply that there isn't, but a buggy caching
DNS server on your router considers that answer as 1.0.0.0 .
Further 'getent hosts NAME_OF_THE_SERVER' will return 1.0.0.0, until you
get the proper answer cached in, as the above.
BTW: most of the above is speculation. I'd appreciate a better
explanation.
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