[Cialug] debian update issues

[Paul Gray]

On 12/18/2012 06:48 PM, Dan Hockey wrote:
> this problem started with a debian squeeze based box running open media vault not making a connection with the debian servers. So...thinking I mucked up something I reinstalled and ran apt-get update and it pulled down several updates. Then two days later I tried to install some other software and nothing worked-couldn't connect
>
> So I dug out another box that had squeeze and tried apt-get update and the same thing.
>
> today I installed wheezy on my beagle bone and got the same
> here's the output from this last attempt with wheezy.....
>
>
> [sudo] password for debian:
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy InRelease
>
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
>    Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease
>
> W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
>
> W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> debian at arm:~$

Try our local mirror:
   santafe.cs.uni.edu

(The crux of the issue is DNS - can you resolve it from the command line 
otherwise? -- "host ftp.us.debian.org" with dnsutils installed)

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