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Lucid Lynx is Lethargically Lingering [Solved]
bowen
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So, I have a server at home that's having some issues, apt-get is really, really bad. Something be doing with security.ubuntu.com
A quick google ties this to home routers, dns, static IPs.
Great! I have all of those. I took the steps I normally take when setting static IP, I followed their guides to resolve the problem, and none of it is working. I even set the DNS to openDNS with no luck. I can ping the offending nameservers with no problem.
What am I doing wrong?
A quick google ties this to home routers, dns, static IPs.
Great! I have all of those. I took the steps I normally take when setting static IP, I followed their guides to resolve the problem, and none of it is working. I even set the DNS to openDNS with no luck. I can ping the offending nameservers with no problem.
What am I doing wrong?
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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What does dig +trace spit out? (note: not sure if dig is normally installed by default)
Edit: Sorry, the exact command would be
dig +trace security.ubuntu.com
You could also just try asking their servers directly instead and seeing if that works: host security.ubuntu.com ns1.canonical.com
Basically I can't apt-get apt-update, apt-upgrade or whatever, apt completely fails because of security.ubuntu.com and nothing is helping. It works fine on DHCP but with a static IP it fails. I can't not have it static.
Then it'll stop, get to 21%, repeat for a new set of IP addys from the sources list.
After 21% I get this:
If I try to install anything it already knows about, I get this
And it hangs there, and then says it couldn't download them.
Apparently this is related to static IPs and home based routers as none of these issues appear to happen at work. Though, I can't not use a static IP, and I can't not use my router.
But that doesn't explain why OpenDNS isn't working, either. It's giving you results at all: I can tell because it gave you the addresses for the root servers in the "dig +trace".
Incidentally, how exactly is apt-get failing? Does it hang forever?
Edit: Oh, didn't see your second post. Hummm. I don't think it's actually a DNS issue, actually.
Trying doing a traceroute, I guess.
(Hm, but it works with DHCP, right? strange...)
Weird.
I guess security.ubuntu.com is the same as archive.ubuntu.com, and the lucid-security part is the only part that matters.
There's a good chance security.ubuntu.com is resolving to an address far away that times out and confuses apt-get. Or something. It doesn't really seem to be very tolerant of network issues though.
So, try editing your /etc/apt/sources.list and replacing the security.ubuntu.com addresses with us.archive.ubuntu.com
But, after a long night of troubleshooting, I found out some moron added an access control for port 80 to go... right back to the same box. Fucking dick. God.
So, I removed that (silly me, wonder why I even put that there), and yay, it's working. Thanks for the help End.