[Nix-dev] Accessing cache.nixos.org

[Mark Gardner]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Mark Gardner <mkg at vt.edu> wrote:

> I have been having a lot of failures installing and rebuilding lately. The
> usual symptom is "", often 6 ("could not resolve host").
>
> For example here are some of the errors I am seeing as I attempt an
> installation (over and over again):
> - download-from-binary-cache.pl: could not download from '
> http://cache.nixos.org/nix-cache-info' (Curl error 6)
> - curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host "cache.nixos.org'
> - download of 'https://cache.nixos.org/nar/....nar.xz' failed: No such
> file or directory
> - could not download '/nix/store/...-sudoers' from any binary cache
>
> Two days ago the problem could be traced to cloudfront.net (AWS
> US-East-1) having problems, but I don't know why the problems yesterday and
> today. Anyone know why? Anything I can do about it? Any work arounds? This
> is stopping me dead in the water...
>

​I found the problem. My office has a single wired port with the computer
daisy chained off the VOIP phone. Plugging the computer directly, bypassing
the phone, seems to solve the problem. I'll have to have tech support take
a look into it. Sorry to have cluttered up the list.

Mark
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