On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Elad Tsur wrote: > Recently this host (tsur4.tau.ac.il) is behind a NAT/firewall/proxy > (WinRoute Pro). the DNS server was changed to be the proxy, and everything > worked fine, except for apt-get which could not find the DNS names in the > URLs at /etc/apt/sources.list. The problem disappeared when I changed the > hostnames to numeric IPs.
The 'dns server' (and I use that term loosely) in WinRoute Pro is probably considerably buggy.. I have reported a glibc bug in this area that causes slow DNS lookups in some situations which may be worsening your problem. Jason
