Re: Network Tangle

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
> I have re installed a number of times trying to get access via the proxy to > the local Australian Mirror site. ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian Two questions: 1. Can you ping ftp.au.debian.org? 2. Can you ping 192.111.32.2? If #1 is a no, but #2 is a yes, then you have a DNS problem. If both

RE: Network Tangle

1999-08-24 Thread david . cureton
I am not sure where you are setting ftp_proxy but I believe that apt-get has some mechanisim for using proxy servers in the /etc/apt.conf file. I am using the 1.3 distributation of apt-get and I cannot seem to find any information on this type of support. Maybe it is only in later releases of apt-