On Sunday 11 February 2001 08:29, Mike McNally wrote:
> Ok, 93 protocol fixed w/ new apt... next error:
>
> Could not connect to localhost:8080 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection
> refused)
>
HTTP_PROXY=192.168.1.1:8080 or
FTP_PROXY=192.168.1.1:port
> I have a poor understanding of a firewall I setup with pmfirewall, but my
> guess here is that I need to tell apt that it should think of this box as
> 192.168.1.1 instead of 127.0.0.1. I checked my ipchains rules and there
> is a rule to allow connections on port 8080, but not for 127.0.0.1.
>
> apt.conf has just one line in it
>
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
>
>
> How would I tell apt what this pc's ip
> number is since it apparently isn't checking the hosts file. Or am I wrong
> here? And thank you for the updated apt program.
>
> On Sat 10 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > If you grab APT 4 from http://people.debian.org/~jgg/apt I think I put a
> > work around in it..
> >
> > Jason
