Aptitude can't resolve domain names(but everything else can)

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lukaszg · #1 Post by **lukaszg** » 2006-06-15 08:19

Whenever I try to access a non-local package source like ftp.debian.org from aptitude it tries to access IP 1.0.0.0. The thing is everything else (Mozilla, where I'm posting this from, ping, nslookup) can resolve the same names correctly. Even worse, when I run ping ftp.debian.org and then immediately after run aptitude it will use the already cached lookup result and will resolve the domain name correctly. However, by the time I get to downloading modules after selecting them the correctly resolved IP will time out and aptitude will be stuck again on 1.0.0.0. I tried looking for a similar problem on the net but didn't find anything... I'd appreciate any clues. I'm using Debian 3.1r2. Here's the contents of my sources.list file:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/ stable main contrib
# deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib

ajdlinux · #2 Post by **ajdlinux** » 2006-06-15 08:21

What's in /etc/resolv.conf?

lukaszg · #3 Post by **lukaszg** » 2006-06-15 08:27

Nothing special:

search LukaszMagda
nameserver 192.168.2.1

192.168.2.1 is my wireless router.

ajdlinux · #4 Post by **ajdlinux** » 2006-06-15 08:30

That's your problem. Your DSL modem isn't passing your DNS through correctly.

I solved this problem by forcing my ISP nameserver.

lukaszg · #5 Post by **lukaszg** » 2006-06-15 08:41

Hmm, you're right, thanks! Weird that it would only be happening for aptitude.

ajdlinux · #6 Post by **ajdlinux** » 2006-06-15 08:48

I can tell you it's more than aptitude. Have you tried wget?

lukaszg · #7 Post by **lukaszg** » 2006-06-15 09:03

wget works with the old config, I'll take your word for it though.