[GTALUG] Can't connect to ca.archive.ubuntu.com

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jul 10 10:47:37 EDT 2019


On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 01:55:51AM -0400, Jim Ruxton via talk wrote:
> For some reason my /etc/hosts file had ca.archive.ubuntu set to
> 91.189.88.152 . Getting rid of that fixed everything. Maybe i should set it
> to 91.189.91.23 to be safe however.

Maybe you should not set it in your hosts file at all and rely on DNS
from the people that control the machine and not ever break it ever again.

/etc/hosts is NOT for putting entries duplicating things that have DNS
that you don't actually control.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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