On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, John Cichy wrote: > I have worked around this problem by putting a symlink on the top level > server to the mirrored directories and instead of putting the hostname in the > sources.list, I put the actual private IP address in. Although this works, > shouldn't apt-get respect the host.conf entries?
APT uses the libc resolver library, that is what takes care of using the hosts file/dns/etc. You will need to talk to those folks to determine what is going on. Jason
