Re: apt-get resolution bug??
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, John Cichy wrote:
> I have worked around this problem by putting a symlink on the top level
> server to the mirrored directories and instead of putting the hostname in the
> sources.list, I put the actual private IP address in. Although this works,
> shouldn't apt-get respect the host.conf entries?
APT uses the libc resolver library, that is what takes care of using the
hosts file/dns/etc. You will need to talk to those folks to determine what
is going on.
Jason
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