Russell, I had a look at dnscache , as a result had to install bind so I set up a caching only name server as per the HOWTO and as the deb README,well almost.
Got online this am and apt-get worked ok. Updating right now. I guess i'll leave it at that now it dosen't appear to be broke. Maybe worth a try for you? [A On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:35:57AM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > 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. > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Thanks Russell, I will try that out today. > -- > ----russ---- > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ----russ----
