Re: [gNewSense-users] Weird IP address problem (was Re: gNewSense-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 54 )

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:05:40 +0000
"Brian Brazil" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > $ host in.archive.gnewsense.org
> > in.archive.gnewsense.org is an alias for us.archive.gnewsense.org.
> > us.archive.gnewsense.org has address 199.232.41.84
> >
> > $ host 1.0.0.0
> > Host 0.0.0.1.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> >
> > Do you see the problem, and why a DNS solution was suggested?
> >
> > Alternatively, as a test, try substituting the IP address 199.232.41.84 in
> > your /etc/apt/sources.list for "in.archive.gnewsense.org" and see if that
> > works.
> 
> That won't work - the archive vhosts aren't setup to support that, and
> I don't have the access required to fix it.

Ah, OK - sorry to create confusion then.

Peter