It’s always a bad idea to do smth before you have your morning coffee. Anyway, it already happened. Was configuring postfix to send emails via Google Apps, there was an issue with resolving domain names and no pings from the droplet. While reading some StackOveflow questions found an advice to reinstall resolvconf, but went into the process without reading the comments (dumb me, yes).
Package was purged, and reinstall isn’t possible as apt-get can’t resolve sources anymore. Restarted the server. Downloaded package directly via
wget http://91.189.91.13/ubuntu/pool/main/r/resolvconf/resolvconf_1.69ubuntu1_all.deb
and tried to install it
dpkg -i resolvconf_1.69ubuntu1_all.deb
Rebooted the server, but no changes. Running apt-get update fails to fecth sources:
...
W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-backports/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'mirrors.digitalocean.com'
...
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 x32 Any ideas?
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Installing the package manually may have worked here. We are currently experiencing an issue that is causing problems reaching the Google public DNS servers configured by default on droplets.
While our team continues to work to resolve the issue, you can fix this on an individual droplet by updating the DNS servers it uses.
On Ubuntu, you can change the DNS servers temporarily by editing your /etc/resolv.conf file but this change will be overwritten the next time the droplet is rebooted.
For a permanent change, you can edit the /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base file to include:
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
example using the OpenDNS.org servers.
Once you’ve made the changes you can update resolvconf by running
sudo resolvconf -u
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