Re: Output from apt-get update.
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 03:10:06PM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> dalton has dnsmasq. From distant recollection, name resolution failed when
> the system was running and dnsmasq was not. That motivated direct reference
> to IP addresses. To the best of my knowledge, an IP address should suffice to
> identify a server or possibly a cluster of them.
An entry in /etc/hosts would probably be a better choice. In the case
of HTTP requests, the hostname needs to be sent inside the request to
identify the correct virtual host.
(Now, maybe that particular mirror isn't on a virtual host, but in
general, most HTTP requests *should* be treated as virtual hosts. Using a
raw IP address in the URL typically won't get you the right result.)
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