Bug#69699: upgrading 2.0 to potato

[Arthur <arthur@ch.twi.tudelft.nl>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19

After installing apt_0.3.19_i386.deb and dpkg_1_6_13_i386.deb (static
versions) on a 2.0 debian machine and setting the source.list to

deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

and running apt-get update i get the following output.

trotski:~# apt-get update
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages
  Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org'
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release
  Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org'
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages
  Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org'
Err ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Packages
...ETC ETC...
  Could not resolve 'ftp.nl.debian.org'
Err ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/non-free Release
  Could not resolve 'ftp.nl.debian.org'
Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages
  Could not resolve 'ftp.nl.debian.org'
...ETC ETC...
Failed to fetch
ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/non-free/binary-i386/Release
  Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org'
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main
Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
...ETC ETC...
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
trotski:~#

It seems that resolving the hostnames to ip addresses does not work. When
I substitute the ip addresses in the sources.list file the whole stuff
works like it should. 

trotski:/etc# cat debian_version
2.0
trotski:/etc# cat hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.1     trotski.koornbeurs.net  trotski
trotski:/etc# cat resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
search koornbeurs.net
#nameserver 130.161.180.1
trotski:/etc# uname -a
Linux trotski 2.0.35 #11 Fri Nov 19 12:40:11 CET 1999 i386 unknown
trotski:/etc# ls -l /lib/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Oct 28  1998 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.0.7.so
trotski:/etc#

This might all be because of a misconfigured nameserver, but it seems
strange anyway.

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