Can't apt-get update, "temporary failure resolving mirrors.digitalocean.com".

Posted on July 14, 2017

Hey, I’m using a newly rebuilt Debian 9 image and I can’t successfully execute apt-get update. I’ve seen several similar questions asked here, none helped me. I can ping to google.com or other websites, even mirrors.digitalocean.com; 8.8.8.8 is present in my /etc/resolv.conf, but still, right after having rebuilt the droplet, ssh-ed into it and changed the root password, the command doesn’t work.

Here’s the exact error message I get:

root@whatever:~# apt-get update
Err:1 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian stretch InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.digitalocean.com'
Err:2 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian stretch/updates InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.digitalocean.com'
Err:3 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian stretch-updates InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.digitalocean.com'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.digitalocean.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian/dists/stretch/updates/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.digitalocean.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian/dists/stretch-updates/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.digitalocean.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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infoad8a40054dfc07d34a6399

August 23, 2017

Also seeing this issue with a fresh install from Debian 9. Rebuilding with Debian 8 works just fine (even after upgrading it to 9!).

Flamber Hansen

July 14, 2017

Hi @oax9c

I’m not seeing a problem right now. Could you try again? I’m trying from servers in NYC1, NYC3, FRA1 and AMS2, and all resolves correctly. I have seen this one time before, but several months ago - I couldn’t connect for 10min.