[Bug 1061752] [NEW] dnsmasq fails intermittently

2012-10-04 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Public bug reported: After upgrade I have numerous DNS resolution errors. This is even to hosts on internal Caltech network which is generally very reliable. Often one needs to issue a command (such as ssh) multiple times before connection succeeds. Problems went away after I commented out the l

[Bug 346386] Re: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header"

2011-05-28 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
I have just been bitten by this myself. After some poking around I realized what happened - I was connected to hotel's wireless which has one of these DNS redirect paywalls. The package manager tried to download the package lists before the connection was unauthorized and got copies of the paywall