[ec2-beta] APT repository for EC2

[Eric Hammond]

Denis:

I ran one instance in each of the EC2 US availability zones and had no
problems updating apt and upgrading the system.

The official Ubuntu EC2 mirror host is not currently set up to respond
to pings, so that's not indicative of a problem.

You will also not be able to access us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com from any
computers outside of EC2.  DNS is currently set up so that it resolves
directly to the internal IP address and can only be accessed from EC2
instances.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Denis Hennessy wrote:
> I can't access the server from my VM:
> 
> $ ping us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com
> PING us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com (10.253.114.113) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ^C
> --- us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com ping statistics ---
> 10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9003ms
> 
> When I do an apt-get update, it fails to hit the server and uses  
> security.ubuntu.com instead. Package installs work but this seems  
> wrong...
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update
> Hit http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg             
> 0% [Working]
> Ign http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation- 
> en_CA                                      9% [Connecting to  
> security.ubuntu.com]
> Ign http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation- 
> en_CA                                       18% [Connecting to  
> security.ubuntu.com]
> Hit http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates  
> Release.gpg                                       27% [Connecting to  
> security.ubuntu.com]
> <snip>
> 
> /dh
> 
> On 3 Mar 2009, at 17:51, Chuck Short wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> I dont see this, what issues are you having?
>>
>> Regards
>> chuck
>>
>> Denis Hennessy wrote:
>>> On a fresh install of ami-69d73000, my /etc/sources.list contains:
>>>
>>> deb http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid main universe
>>> deb-src http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid main  
>>> universe
>>> deb http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-updates main   
>>> universe
>>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security main universe
>>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security main   
>>> universe
>>>
>>> The main server (us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com) does not appear to  
>>> exist.  Is this a temporary problem is should I be using a  
>>> different source?
>>>
>>> /dh
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
>