On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 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. > > > > Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ? > If you did, apt-get update (or dselect -> update) should check your > mirror.
For "dselect", "apt-get update" is not enough. You need to make sure to run "dselect update". That what previous post by a debian developer, as I remember. > Usually they still will connect to the public server for download since > probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
