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jeffery_the_wind
Asked: 2014-05-20 00:30:43 +0800 CST

possible DNS problem unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com

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I just upgraded my ubuntu server via command line to version 12.04. I was on 11.10, so when I upgraded I have to switch the sources in source.list to the old-releases.ubuntu.com source. Everything worked fine.

Anyway, now I want to upgrade again, but the problem is my server is having a problem contacted the us.archive.ubuntu.com server. When I do apt-get update I get many errors that look like this:

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-security/universe/i18n/Translation-en  Something wicked happened resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)

Pinging us.archive.ubuntu.com doesn't work with unknown host error. I also tried ping google.com and it didn't work either. Pinging 8.8.8.8 however did work. So I am wondering what has happened. I was poking around the web and it seems like its a DNS issue, but I don't know what to do. My /etc/resolv.conf file is blank.

Does anyone know how I can fix this issue?

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1 Answers

  1. I couldn't comment because of lacking REP Although this isn't directly an answer, my dedicated server is running 12.10 and my resolv.conf looks something like:

    domain example.com
search exmaple.com
nameserver EXTERNAL IP 1
nameserver EXTERNAL IP 2

    Where example.com is obviously my datacentres domain name, which I never removed or changed. Although you could try this post or serverfault for better help

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