Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > Hello all, > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a > debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an > internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring > that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to > make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : > > order hosts,bind > > so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file. > > TIA, > John >
Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ? If you did, apt-get update (or dselect -> update) should check your mirror. Usually they still will connect to the public server for download since probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server Michel.
