From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan =?utf-8?B?xIxlcm3DoWs=?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ubuntu 16.04 server --- Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80 when package-refresh-contents Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:41:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87shb44pyy.fsf@cgc-instruments.com> References: <20180117121229.GB14008@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516192843 27063 195.159.176.226 (17 Jan 2018 12:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 17 13:40:39 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ebn11-00061w-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:40:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebn2z-0007XZ-4o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 07:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebn2Q-0007Ww-GS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 07:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebn2M-0001pF-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 07:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from cgc-instruments.com ([83.169.1.125]:37314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebn2M-0001mg-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 07:41:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Eclipse.local (p578FE14A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.143.225.74]) by cgc-instruments.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D63AA1261 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:41:47 +0100 (CET) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=cgc-instruments.com; b=shjQlMGDBLnTgK0KrIKTmjuYbCTS4jz6rtSfl90h4W5Y+aqfPbqmbRc18nRezlGZpXAW3rNhRgrZroxaONNQqgZa8RzRJ43c809MetkTl5iZBe7fw/nGfL+FX8OIAGVTQFjzQu3z3iF4BN8tlSKQ5UTuCKbdxIPLbiaHwPRZRJI=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; In-Reply-To: <20180117121229.GB14008@tuxteam.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 83.169.1.125 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115756 Archived-At: If you are setting up a new emacs client, you might want to take a look at this too: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2015/11/editor-malware.html tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 03:56:34AM -0800, izzy.yichao.cai@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi folks, >>=20 >> I have tried to install elpy in emacs (24.5.1) on my server which is run= ning Ubuntu 16.04. >>=20 >> When I run M-x package-refresh-contents, emacs successfully connected to= stable.melpa.org:443.=20 >> After that, it was hanged on "Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80". I am pr= etty sure that I am not behind proxy.=20 > > I don't know about this... > >> Then I tried to ping this host and this is what I got: >> me@server:~$ ping elpa.gnu.org:80 >> ping: unknown host elpa.gnu.org:80 > > ...but this won't work. Indeed, "elpa.gnu.org:80" isn't a host name. > Try pinging "elpa.gnu.org". It's there and replies to pings :) > >> However, pinging other websites is normal. I also tried to access this (= elpa.gnu.org:80) on my local computer and it is accessible. > > You don't ping websites -- you ping hosts. Actually, elpa.gnu.org > is serving a website at port 80 currently. So the URL > http://elpa.gnu.org:80/ should get you something (since port 80 > is the default for http anyway, you can leave it out). > > That said, elpa.gnu.org is also serving https, so I'd strongly > recommend going with https://elpa.gnu.org/ > > Cheers > - -- tom=C3=A1s > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlpfPa0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ+5wCfUj5LUoKJbu+ty2kjd6fJCKjK > d0gAnis0HbxOkzP0n579SeUupTJUFEAa > =3D136e > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----