Re: Output from apt-get update.

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Output from apt-get update.
Date	2019-07-03 14:30 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 03:10:06PM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> dalton has dnsmasq.  From distant recollection, name resolution failed when 
> the system was running and dnsmasq was not.  That motivated direct reference 
> to IP addresses.  To the best of my knowledge, an IP address should suffice to 
> identify a server or possibly a cluster of them. 

An entry in /etc/hosts would probably be a better choice.  In the case
of HTTP requests, the hostname needs to be sent inside the request to
identify the correct virtual host.

(Now, maybe that particular mirror isn't on a virtual host, but in
general, most HTTP requests *should* be treated as virtual hosts.  Using a
raw IP address in the URL typically won't get you the right result.)

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Re: Output from apt-get update. peter@easthope.ca - 2019-07-03 00:50 +0200
  Re: Output from apt-get update. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-03 14:30 +0200

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