That was it. Thanks Sascha (and Aioanei)! http_proxy was set to use Privoxy. I'm going to let them know their filtering is messing up aptitude updates.
Thanks again! lch On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Sascha Silbe < sascha-ml-debian-u...@silbe.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:15:27AM -0800, chris kerr wrote: > > I'm not sure what the 'domain' and 'search' parts are, but anyway, I can >> ping both debian.crosslink.net and ftp.us.debian.org and suffer no >> surfing >> troubles. >> > OK, it's starting to get strange. Do you have any proxy configured (check > $http_proxy and /etc/apt/apt.conf)? > If you have strace already installed, you can try "strace -f -e > trace=network apt-get update". Otherwise you can try downloading the .deb > via packages.debian.org [1] and installing it with "dpkg -i strace*.deb". > > > [1] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=strace > > > CU Sascha > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLRNInAAoJELpz82VMF3DaaFYIAJRpYyIVffsdNxKNofvgpvU9 > i7ixLBqvIe5dZzxYOnCG4mwEvD+wE26j7+chNy4t/0P/d7JfgeIquQFDLamssOuw > LpQVxzUfMqr2yNuHqfDx8Mh+NhvbPgTAs+WIdRKfLyXGa9MuCnm2iVowt+NAn19z > jk28oh/7+kZEBTBTc7U3qfpibSkVadXSlE6ZDoHLGh0DCcjvaE5vXXpM0Mgzfif1 > /w2wsF0588sWpai0iLsnSpNMM33bQQp6fsplVP+Hawlh6rtw8YNAtca9MFt5DGiw > zz0rP4PtrS7qezw059de7jvxkugbqV/6G8Y5ZKeVJcBRDXty/gFYBJHP0t3Bxco= > =tjx5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
