> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:10:09 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: >> "netselect was unable to find a mirror, this probably means that >> you are behind a firewall and it is blocking traceroute." >> >> I haven't done any tinkering with firewalls, what I installed is what I >> got. What is this problem? > > Can you use traceroute from the command line, e.g. > > traceroute ftp.se.debian.org
Yes. This is the output: traceroute to ftp.se.debian.org (130.239.18.173), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 local.gateway (192.168.1.1) 4.203 ms 6.496 ms 6.495 ms 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * * * 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 napoleon.acc.umu.se (130.239.18.173) 492.244 ms 495.415 ms 493.913 ms And the problems persists > If ftp.port80.se is a proper mirror, then it should have "testing" as a > symlink pointing to "lenny", so your new line should work. I had a quick > look and it seems to me that ftp.port80.se/debian/ is set up correctly. > What is the exact error message that you get from "apt-get update"? I don't understand it, it's working fine now. But I tried it so many times earlier. It's beyond me... Thank you very much for the help. I am still trying to figure out the first problem. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
