Re: apt-get cannot conect to server: system problem

this is for the gurus . i connected to a different ISP and everything works again. Sth for the gurus to explain and eventally correct. Why apt-get, firefox n epiphany couldnt resolve names if the system could (and konqueror too) and with the new ISP they can? Obviouly apt-get, firefox n epiphany

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server: system problem

$nslookup This works fine. Commands host and nslookup resolve names. Konqueror does too. firefox, epipphany-browser, apt-get and symnaptic do NOT. But they work fine with ip addresses. Weird!!! On 1/6/09, Samir Cury wrote: > Man, this is weird, but i don't think is a good idea to put out the

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server: system problem

Man, this is weird, but i don't think is a good idea to put out the ip's on sources.list if you can just solve dns problem. Take the nameservers from your /etc/resolv.conf and do a nslookup like that $nslookup and see what you got, maybe a problem on your ISP or just internal network. On Tue

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server: system problem

> What is the value of the environment variable $http_proxy? no proxy I solved the problem with `apt-get update` by giving resolved names in /etc/apt/sources.list like bellow deb ftp://128.30.2.36/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb ftp://204.152.191.39/debian/ testing main contrib non-free