On 7/24/2014 4:35 PM, ianseeks wrote:
On Thursday 24 Jul 2014 13:48:50 Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 07/24/2014 01:37 PM, ianseeks wrote:
Error message: Could not resolve host: download.opensuse.org
DNS failures.
To rule this out, you could temporarily add that server's IP to the file /etc/hosts.
thanks, but it always works when i press "retry"
There is a round-robin thing in effect where the the same name does not always resolve to the same ip, or even the same TYPE of ip (ipv4 vs ipv6). You could ping that hostname 4 times in a row and see that it t flip flops between two different IP's. (separate ping commands, not just letting one ping command ping for 4 seconds.) So there is nothing strange about the retry working with no other changes that you notice. And that lack of obviousness to the user is a problem with the very idea of such in-line on the fly transparent smoke & mirrors in my opinion, but in practical terms there is no real way around it. They must do load balancing. The /etc/hosts work-around basically makes your machine always use that exact IP instead of picking one of a pool of mirrors. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org