-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Could you please try to keep your lines less than 76 characters long? More than that and it causes annoyances with the MUAs some of us use.
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full > system going from the base slink. I just got a modem the other day > and got it to ping my isp, but running apt-get update produces > (somthing close to) the following results: > > get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > 0% [connecting to http.us.debian.org] > error http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > could not open... Is this the entire error? If not, quote some more ;) ... Also, it could help if you send us your /etc/apt/sources.list file, to make sure there's no typos there. > so I'm connected, but apt can't get (no pun intended!) to the urls > listed in the sources list. tried putting debian in /etc/hosts.allow, > but that didn't do it. Can you connect to them with lynx, or even telnet to port 80? These two commands will let you test. lynx http://www.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/ telnet http.us.debian.org 80 You shouldn't need to edit hosts.allow or hosts.deny to connect to other computers, those files control who can connect to yours. > any ideas? Given access to my computer, most of you guys could fix > this in about 15 seconds. If you get that desperate, there's ways to do that... I wouldn't recommend it except as a last resort though. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN88/P77M/9WKZLW5AQGKjAP8Ce0lITonfw1QW5AuSOKhADHsn+THNlH2 o64fEI0JlomvGNOymBmpjMAOD3pWduXA0L/ZzGp7Z4xQXqK0jI42xbiz3w+gx+ho zSzM66YL8u3kSvwy1p5XV03LhPWySDFoKNm0XheiZEC0sx+y4lDgu7GzVKYpfV2H 7/JlH84X8wY= =x4td -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
