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#26 2010-08-19 20:46:07

Inxsible
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Re: I can ping, but not synchronize/download from mirrors

01011010 wrote:

Should I condense the dialogue of this page and resubmit it to the "Networking, Server, and Protection" section?

No starting multiple threads for the same issue is highly discouraged and your new thread will most likely be closed by a mod. Probably me smile


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#27 2010-08-19 20:48:10

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Re: I can ping, but not synchronize/download from mirrors

Inxsible wrote:
01011010 wrote:

Should I condense the dialogue of this page and resubmit it to the "Networking, Server, and Protection" section?

No starting multiple threads for the same issue is highly discouraged

Maybe change the title to "I can ping, but not download from mirrors - DNS problem?"

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#28 2010-08-19 20:48:17

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Re: I can ping, but not synchronize/download from mirrors

you said you didn't change your hostname at all? Did you even create a host name during the install ?

As I mentioned earlier as well.....please refer to the Beginner's Guide about setting a hostname. It is a highly important step to get your network going.

Also post your entire rc.conf file and your /etc/hosts file.


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#29 2010-08-19 20:53:24

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Re: I can ping, but not synchronize/download from mirrors

PROGRESS! I can now download due to the following:

I switched back from dhcp to static IP in /etc/rc.conf. I also removed the "!" from ROUTES=(!gateway), which was there by default, and inserted "nohook resolv.conf" into /etc/dhcpcd.conf to keep my nameservers from disappearing every time I restart the network. I guess the "!" was ultimately the cause for all the trouble.

So I'm now updating the system (hooray for persistence!), which is slow (~30kb/s) for some unknown reason, but functional.

Any clue why DHCP without the "!" doesn't work though? I'd like to get DHCP working so I can say I've 100% completely conquered this problem.

Thanks,
01011010

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#30 2010-08-19 20:58:21

karol
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Re: I can ping, but not synchronize/download from mirrors

I'm connected to the net via a router and have

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DHCP just works.

What mirror have you picked? Some are throttled which will result in rather low download speed.

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#31 2010-08-19 21:19:21

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Re: I can ping, but not synchronize/download from mirrors

karol wrote:

I'm connected to the net via a router and have

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DHCP just works.

What mirror have you picked? Some are throttled which will result in rather low download speed.

Except for being in the 10.0.1.* range, my settings were exactly the same, but resulted in the unique problem of ping-ability without download-ability. What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like, and is it autogenerated from DHCP?

The slow updates were first noticed when I upgraded from F12 to F13, and now (unfortunately) seems to have carried over to Arch as well... I tried 3 mirrors at random, eventually settling on ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch. Hopefully after I've got everything updated and a WM installed (and email, and a browser, so that I'm 'functional' again), I can work out what's going on with the speeds. Perhaps I've just been picking bad mirrors for the past 6+ months.

Regards,
01011010

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#32 2010-08-19 21:26:33

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Re: I can ping, but not synchronize/download from mirrors

Autogenerated

[karol@black ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
# Generated by dhcpcd from eth0
# /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line
nameserver 192.168.1.1
# /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line

Some AUR helpers may help also with slow downloading by fetching from multiple servers at once https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88247 :
parallelization for faster downloads (single, combined package and source downloads for upgrades with aria2c, parallel searches, parallel taurball downloads, etc)

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