Arch Linux

matthewleon

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Registered: 2015-01-31

Posts: 1

Resolving times out on all servers

Hi,

For some reason, my Arch VMs are all unable to resolve hostnames during pacman sync:

vagrant@archlinux:~$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.serverspace.co.uk : Resolving timed out after 10555 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net : Resolving timed out after 10566 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.bytemark.co.uk : Resolving timed out after 10541 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.cinosure.com : Resolving timed out after 10713 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.manchester.m247.com : Resolving timed out after 10571 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from www.mirrorservice.org : Resolving timed out after 10546 milliseconds

Otherwise, however, all those hostnames resolve:

vagrant@archlinux:~$ ping arch.serverspace.co.uk
PING arch.serverspace.co.uk (130.180.200.19) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from arch.serverspace.co.uk (130.180.200.19): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=10.8 ms

For what it's worth, these are vagrant VMs running on Virtualbox. And they never had this problem before. Very strange. Any advice?

anonymous2

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Registered: 2014-09-25

Posts: 1

Re: Resolving times out on all servers

I had the same problem today after using the --clean option with Sync. About a quarter of an hour later it worked again, seemingly without any reason.