apt-get via proxy in Potato

[chriskenrick]

Up until recently apt-get has been sucessfully downloading packages from the 
net through a MS Proxy Server at my site.

I then dist-upgraded to Potato, but now it can't get past the proxy.  It says 
'connecting to internet' (which happens to be the proxy name), but doesn't get 
any further.  wget on the same machine works fine through the proxy.

The only config I have done for the proxy is the appropriate exported 
http_proxy environment variable

Anyone have any ideas about this?

- Chris Kenrick

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Re: apt-get via proxy in Potato

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I then dist-upgraded to Potato, but now it can't get past the proxy.  It
 says 'connecting to internet' (which happens to be the proxy name), but
 doesn't get any further.  wget on the same machine works fine through
 the proxy. 

If it says [Connecting to internet] then it is waiting for DNS to resolve
'internet'

Depending on how broken your DNS configuration is you may have to wait a
long time, it uses the glibc getnameinfo function which will perform IPv6
lookups first. The way glibc does it is kind of borken so their may be a
long delay if your DNS is not set properly. 

Jason