I just experienced the same problem when trying to install amap-4.8-1:
hanzy:~# apt-get install amap
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
amap
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 70.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 164kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org
stable/main amap 4.8-1 [70.0kB]
Fetched 70.0kB in 1s (54.4kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package amap.
(Reading database ... 54102 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking amap (from .../archives/amap_4.8-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up amap (4.8-1) ...
Upgrading trigger, response and rpc files ...
Running Online Update for fingerprints, connecting to www.thc.org/thc-amap
Error: could not resolve host:
www.thc.org
dpkg: error processing amap (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
amap
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
