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Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved

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On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:35:28 -0400
Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:

> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> E: Failed to fetch
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux/linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.36-1+deb8u2_amd64.deb
> Could not resolve 'security-cdn.debian.org

> It was apparently temporary. Worked when I got home
 
> Any suggestions?

In case you don't know by now, it was probably this:

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/dos-attack-on-major-dns-provider-brings-internet-to-morning-crawl/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/10/21/135241/several-sites-including-twitter-github-spotify-paypal-nytimes-suffering-outage----dyn-dns-under-ddos-attack-update
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/dns_devastation_as_dyn_dies_under_denialofservice_attack/

There were apparently at least 3 major phases of attack, with calm
between.

Nick
-- 
Never FDISK after midnight

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Can't install security update: server name not resolved Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2016-10-21 13:40 +0200
  Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved Morten Bergman <chaosmonaut@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 21:10 +0200
    Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2016-10-22 02:30 +0200
  Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved Nick Boyce <nick@steelyglint.org> - 2016-10-24 05:10 +0200

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