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Autor: Daniel Reurich
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To: Jaromil, fsmithred
CC: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] Could not resolve 'mirror.cc.columbia.edu'
On 03/05/16 20:28, Jaromil wrote:
> On Mon, 02 May 2016, fsmithred wrote:
>
>> I've been having trouble installing beta due to packages not
>> downloading. This was with the netinstall, the CD and the DVD.
>> Tonight, I couldn't do a debootstrap install because some packages
>> wouldn't download. Also can't do update/upgrade of existing
>> installation for same reason.
>
>> This error has come up a few times: Could not resolve
>> 'mirror.cc.columbia.edu'
>
>> I tried changing sources.list to packages.devuan.org, but I still
>> get the same error. Is there another address for a repo I can use
>> that won't try to resolve to columbia.edu?
>
> while this may have been a problem of your network setup, it is true
> that hickups may be experienced from time to time. We are monitoring
> them and it seems they are due to the httpredir.debian.org hop that
> amprolla does when packages are not into the devuan repo.
>
> nextime is working on a solution for this, but meanwhile re-trying
> mostly leads to the solution of the problem, since httpredir will
> rotate to another mirror.
>
> still I believe your problem here is due to dns configuration on
> your side, since the mirror in question seems to resolve and work
>

We have a potential solution for this, can if you have a reliable in
country debian mirror and can email me the details we can set up a
redirect for your country code to use that mirror instead of debians
httpredir

Regards
    Daniel.


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