On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's > > > > > lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in > > > > > my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but > > > > > it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public > > > > > address instead. Does anyone know how to make dselect look at the > > > > > hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : > > > > > > > > > > order hosts,bind > > > > > > > > > > so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host > > > > > file. > > > > > > > > Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ? > > > > If you did, apt-get update (or dselect -> update) should check your > > > > mirror. > > > > > > For "dselect", "apt-get update" is not enough. You need to make sure > > > to run "dselect update". That what previous post by a debian > > > developer, as I remember. > > > > > > > Usually they still will connect to the public server for download > > > > since probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server > > > > This machine was built on the private network from my mirror, not from > > the the public server. The problem is that now that the machine is in the > > DMZ it is it is using my dns which is resolving to the public address, > > not what is in it's hosts file. > > Let me get that right: your mirror is named http.us.debian.org in your > hosts file? No, my host file contains an entry for:
enterprisepenguin.com LOCAL IP my sources.list file has entries: http://enterprisepenguin.com/distributions/debian/ and dselect tries to connect to my public IP for enterprisepenguin.com rather then the LOCAL IP in the hosts file. > That is not the correct way to do it, name it anything else (mirror for > ex.) and update the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to this address. > > Michel.
