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Defender

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Registered: 2023-11-20

Posts: 12  

[SOLVED] Is deb.devuan.org down or having trouble?

I've been trying to install a few packages for a couple hours and I keep getting messages for different files like:

Err:17 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur/main amd64 yelp-xsl all 42.1-4
temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org'

What's odd is I see other files on that same server it did find...

at the end it gives "failed to fetch" errors for each of the packages with problems.

Sorry, I didn't know if this was the right place to ask...

Last edited by Defender (Yesterday 20:58:55)

Mercury

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Registered: 2024-11-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Is deb.devuan.org down or having trouble?

This is a long-running issue with DNS, and has been happening for at least a year. It happened to me several times. I don't know the exact cause or if the admins have tried anything serious to fix it. You can fix it by switching your DNS server to one of google's -- 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 -- those seem to always resolve the address correctly. Alternatively, you can change your sources.list file to point to a local mirror, such as ca.deb.devuan.org.

Previous posts about it:
/viewtopic.php?id=7416
/viewtopic.php?id=7066

Defender

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Registered: 2023-11-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Is deb.devuan.org down or having trouble?

Ok, thanks.  I did search here for deb.devuan.org before asking.  I wonder why it didn't find those posts?   Ahhhh, its been an ongoing issue a long time, so it was 3 pages back.  Very odd...

Thanks for clueing me in.  I never had the problem with the older release.

Defender

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Registered: 2023-11-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Is deb.devuan.org down or having trouble?

That fixed it!