David Maslen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must say, this list is very quiet. I hope it's because everyone is > busy compiling packages for debian-hurd.
It might also be because the root nameservers at internic have dropped debian, for as yet unknown (and undocumented) reasons. What this means is that some people can't send to the list at the moment (because that the information about where to find the nameservers for debian.org has expired from the cache on whatever machine is supplying name services for them). Here's a message I sent to debian-devel about this: Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:31:20 -0400 Subject: Re: debian.org removed from root nameservers Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a result you might not be able to send mail to > > . lists.debian.org > . bugs.debian.org > . packages.debian.org > . debian.org itself > > You might receive bounces saying 'host not found'. In that case > please postpone your mail until this is fixed. Of course, you can work around this problem by temporarily putting appropriate addresses in /etc/hosts (and setting up nsswitch.conf appropriately). It looks like 205.229.104.6 (murphy) is the best address to stick in /etc/hosts for lists.debian.org... or, if you're using qmail, put into /var/qmail/control/smtproutes: lists.debian.org:[205.229.104.6] Here's the current addresses of debian's name servers, if you want to try using nslookup, etc.: buoy.com internet address = 205.230.163.100 ns2.cistron.nl internet address = 195.64.68.28 miriam.fuller.edu internet address = 206.1.27.4 ns1.waw.com internet address = 194.51.88.250 Remember to clean out any hardwired gunk when internic's registration comes back up. -- Raul
