On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:42:02PM +0100, Zoran S wrote:
Hello Steve,
I am not reaching mirror.bytemark.co.uk : Unable to connect to mirror.bytemark.co.uk:http: [IP:>2001:41c8:20:5e6::10 80]
No, my VM is set to use IPV4. And my VM does reach all other external sites, except mirror.bytemark.co.uk. You can see this from the pastebin log: https://pastebin.com/334xHvX8
Do I have authorization issue here? Do I need to have some more authorization to reach this server?
No, that's not your problem.
apt-get inside the VM is looking up "mirror.bytemark.co.uk" in DNS and getting back both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. It's preferring v6 (as most things will these days) and trying to connect to 2001:41c8:20:5e6::10. That's failing. It's then reporting that error. This is not normally a problem - apt will fall back to v4 if v6 doesn't work. But I'm guessing that also didn't work, so it's reporting the first error.
I've seen in your previous mails to the list that you've needed to configure a proxy for the dispatcher (so that works for downloading the image in the first place). Unfortunately, the proxy settings are not passed on into the network setup inside the VM and that's probably the problem you're seeing. It will be trying to connect directly to the remote web server. If your network doesn't allow that at all, then you'll either need to reconfigure the test image to use your proxy, or set up a transparent proxy to control things as needed.
I've specifically tried to reproduce this problem on my local network using the same image as you (the standard one from images.v.l.o) and I can't. I've tried various configurations on the host machine and VM, (no network, v4 only, v6 only, both v4 and v6) and I don't get the same error messages. Thst's what tells me it must be your network with the proxy setup, I'm afraid.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,