On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 15:06 -0500, Nelson Last wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I changed the source to > deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ squeeze/updates main > with no difference, other than the error message now says: > Failed to fetch > ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/squeeze/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: > 130.89.149.226 21]
That IP is for a machine which hosts ftp.debian.org, fwiw, which would explain why it's failing to retrieve any files from security.d.o paths. > I'm not sure what you mean by the forced proxy. It was my > understanding that the file I've named proxy provides the username and > password supplied to ftp sites, and can have any name. No, it supplies the details of a proxy server to use as part of the connection, hence Acquire::ftp::Proxy. The username and password are passed to the proxy server, not the destination server. As to why removing the file entirely would break your access to ftp.d.o, I can only assume that there's something else in your environment or network acting as a proxy, which is being bypassed by your explicit configuration. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1314736782.8406.14.ca...@hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org