Re: unable to apt-get or wget

On Jan 10, 6:52 am, ibupro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article

<3f4bb50b-2a9a-4139-a20b-62db29f07...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ivan wrote:

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I'm able to ping internal and external websites, and I'm able to ping
the machine from another one.

That implies basic networking is OK, but ping is a different protocol
than either apt-get or wget.

My problem is that I can't get wget or apt-get to work..

Both time out when I try to use either.

1. What are the exact commands you are using. Specifically, what
server are you attempting to connect to?

2. Do _other_ TCP/IP services run? Can you FOR EXAMPLE use the
standard old fashioned 'ftp' client to connect to 'ibiblio.org'. The
syntax would be 'ftp ibiblio.org' and log in as 'anonymous' with your
email address as password. Use 'quit' to exit.

I ha ve no idea as to where to look.. Would someone here please give
me some advise as to where to begin..

The Queen of Hearts told Alice "Begin at the beginning. Go to the end,
and then stop." I'd try seeing if you can connect to various servers
using different applications - does 'ftp' work? How about your web
browser (what-ever that might be)? How have you configured things?
Is there a firewall involved? Do the hostnames you are trying to
connect to resolve to IP addresses?

Old guy



Hi,

Thank you for your help.

I was able to ftp to ibiblio.org and downloaded the file HEADER.html
with no problems.

Which is really confusing, because if there were some sort of firewall
rule behind my network, or I was behind a proxy server, I shouldn't be
able to download files via ftp either, right?
Unless there were different rules set for ftp and http..

I am trying the following:

# wget google.com
# apt-get update

Both lines simply time out.


.

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