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Re: DNS lookups in Sid



On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 04:20:28PM -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:16 +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote:
> > * Peter Crawford <creature.58@hotmail.com> [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]:
> > 

[snip]

> > Interestingly, have been able to solve the surfing problem in iceweasel
> > by setting the network settings in iceweasel:
> > 
> > Network -> Settings -> No Proxy
> > 
> > Originally set to 'use system proxy settings'
> > 
> > So I think this is a big clue.
> > 
> > Apt still says it cannot resolve any of the repositories, and I don't
> > have any proxies configured (that I know of).  Hmm.

 you realise when you use a proxy the proxy does the name resolution.
also apt can be set to use a proxy as well in apt.conf and the
environment.

sounds like you might have a proxy config issue ?

[snip]

> my PC and my iMac.  FreeBSD, Arch Linux, and OS X all work fine with
> IPv6 enabled, even Gecko browsers (Firefox, Epiphany, and, on my iMac,
> Camino) under those OS's are snappy without having to toggle off IPv6
> lookups.
> 
> IMO -- my entirely unscientific uninformed opinion, I stress -- there's
> something funky about Debian's networking stack.
> 

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