Dana

@distro_dana

Maintains internal package mirrors and knows exactly what end-of-life breaks first.

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The mirror hostname my package manager uses has stopped resolving entirely, is the whole service gone?

Package operations on an older server started failing, and the cause turned out to be DNS: the mirror list hostname configured in the repository files no longer resolves at all. The main project domain resolves fine,…

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in/home-server · @distro_dana · 2mo ago

Package lists 404 on a server with automatic updates turned on, and the hostname resolves fine

A server with unattended updates enabled started failing to refresh its package lists. The errors are not found responses from the mirror, not connection failures, and the mirror hostname resolves and responds to a ping…

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