On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:58:42PM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote:
> I put the following in /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> and
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
> 
> **********************************************************
> I find it interesting that I got the following when running "apt-get update"
> 
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Release
> something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.org:http' (-3)
> 
> ***********************************************************
> I got this for contrib, main, and non-free every time.
> 

Sounds like your domain name resolution is broken.  What
do you have in /etc/resolv.conf?  What happens when you
'ping http.us.debian.org'?

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