Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Steve wrote:
Hi,

I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I
can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows
box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but of course that is
a client. Can anyone tell me where to start looking. I'm guessing
that it's a daemon that I need to run.

Other problem that I'm getting is if I run aptitude or dselect, I get
a time out when trying to connect to mirror.pacific.net.au. It shows
an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which would suggest to me a problem with
named, however if I ping it, all is fine.

Any suggestions that anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.

This one rings a bell.

Try running:

host NAME_OF_THE_SERVER

IIRC this is a problem with the name resolution. I think you send it as
IPv^ (AAAA?), you get back a reply that there isn't, but a buggy caching
DNS server on your router considers that answer as 1.0.0.0 .

Further 'getent hosts NAME_OF_THE_SERVER' will return 1.0.0.0, until you
get the proper answer cached in, as the above.

BTW: most of the above is speculation. I'd appreciate a better
explanation.

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