Re: Wheezy-backports

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 05/21/2013 02:37 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013, Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
>> Using the instructions at <http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/>
>> for a few days now, without success, I am getting the following
>>
>> " Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:80 (204.152.191.39). -
>> connect (110: Connection timed out)"
>>
>> The same results with ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org.  This
>> started the day after Wheezy was released.
>>
>> I have not seen any posts about this so I assume I have missed.
>> something.
>>
>> Sources list looks like this:
>>
>> deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main
>> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main
>>
>> Any idea what is screwed up?
> 
> After entering any of those lines, did you do, as root, apt-get update?

Ah, yes. the Lines I included above were returned by the update command  ;-(

> This is my repository line for wheezy-backports.  And it works.
> 
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
> 
This is what I get I get from trying to find ftp.debian.org

> topa@dj:~$ fping  http://ftp.debian.org/debian
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian address not found

For some reason, which I haven't figured out, is why they are not found?
 DNS problem or ipv6 or ???

Thanks tho the reply.

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Wayne
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