On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 02:23:34PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > I just tried it ththe the same line in my sources.list ie > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates [it works]
> Maybe it was having a bad day when you tried it? Yeah, I was having a really bad day I guess. Now it is solved. Sorry I didn't check this stupid thing earlier. For those who are interested: $http_proxy and $ftp_proxy were not set for root, but only for normal users of the system. As traffic to 0/0 80 is blocked at my ISP, the connection did not have a chance to succeed. Sorry again. -- thomas. .powered.by.debian/linux. .served.by.FreeBSD.