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Re: apt-get cannot conect to server: system problem



$nslookup <nameserver> <the_name_you_want_to_query>

This works fine. Commands host and nslookup resolve names.
Konqueror does too. firefox, epipphany-browser, apt-get and
symnaptic do NOT. But they work fine with ip addresses.

Weird!!!

On 1/6/09, Samir Cury <rimasy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Man, this is weird, but i don't think is a good idea to put out the ip's  on
> sources.list if you can just solve dns problem.
>
> Take the nameservers from your /etc/resolv.conf and do a nslookup like that
>
> $nslookup <nameserver> <the_name_you_want_to_query>
>
> and see what you got, maybe a problem on your ISP or just internal network.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, oxy <oxyopes@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> > What is the value of the environment variable $http_proxy?
>> no proxy
>>
>> I solved the problem with `apt-get update` by giving resolved
>> names in /etc/apt/sources.list like bellow
>>
>> deb ftp://128.30.2.36/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>> deb ftp://204.152.191.39/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>> deb ftp://35.9.37.225/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>> deb ftp://64.50.236.52/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>> deb-src http://130.89.149.225/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
>>
>> Obviously i have a dns problem. My firefox and epipphany-browser
>> do no longer rersolve names and give connection time out everytime.
>> Interestingly konqueror resolves all names. So, the problem is
>> somewhere in my system. Any tip?
>>
>>
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