Question
Can't apt-get update, "temporary failure resolving mirrors.digitalocean.com".
- Posted July 14, 2017
- DigitalOceanDNSDebian
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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Seems that /etc/resolv.conf have wrong permissions
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 19 Jan 11 18:16 /etc/resolv.conf
this file must have +r for all users, execute following command to fix them:
chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf
the result must be:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 Jan 11 18:16 /etc/resolv.conf
Seems that /etc/resolv.conf have wrong permissions
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 19 Jan 11 18:16 /etc/resolv.conf
this file must have +r for all users, execute following command to fix them:
chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf
the result must be:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 Jan 11 18:16 /etc/resolv.conf
Seems that /etc/resolv.conf have wrong permissions
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 19 Jan 11 18:16 /etc/resolv.conf
this file must have +r for all users, execute following command to fix them:
chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf
the result must be:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 Jan 11 18:16 /etc/resolv.conf
I just had this same problem and for me it was because I set up a firewall to limit all incoming & outgoing traffic to just my IP. Removing that firewall fixed the issue.
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Also seeing this issue with a fresh install from Debian 9. Rebuilding with Debian 8 works just fine (even after upgrading it to 9!).
i have same problem too… ping http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian/ Name or service not known, but ping google.com is working… i think digitalocean droplet can not access himself files…
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.
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