Re: Bug#69067: DNS problems withe firewall
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Elad Tsur wrote:
> Recently this host (tsur4.tau.ac.il) is behind a NAT/firewall/proxy
> (WinRoute Pro). the DNS server was changed to be the proxy, and everything
> worked fine, except for apt-get which could not find the DNS names in the
> URLs at /etc/apt/sources.list. The problem disappeared when I changed the
> hostnames to numeric IPs.
The 'dns server' (and I use that term loosely) in WinRoute Pro is probably
considerably buggy.. I have reported a glibc bug in this area that causes
slow DNS lookups in some situations which may be worsening your problem.
Jason
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