On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:21:06PM +1100, Russell Davies wrote:
> ; Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a
> ; bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files
> ; including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1.
> ;
> ; Apt-get update failed after the files were installed, so now I have two
> ; installs on separate drives which are non-updateable.:-(
> ;
> ; Am I the only one woody doesn't like ?
>
> nope..I've experienced this problem too. It's definitely something weird
> happening with resolver libraries -- I found I could actually avoid the
> problem by using dnscache (http://dnscache.com) and performing my own dns
> queries iteratively. Unfortunately my company has decided to firewall
> dns traffic and I'm back to using bind, apt is broken again. Can someone
> please fix apt?
>
> r.
>
>
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Thanks Russell, I will try that out today.
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