I was writing this up as a question when I solved the problem I was having with apt-get. apt-get was failing due to inability to resolve URLs when using Astaro ASG 7.3. ASG is running on vmware server 2.0 installed on the same physical box as the Ubuntu 8.04 server.
Prior to using ASG I was using a Dlink router which provided the DHCP which also provided the DNS to the server.
As the server runs the ASG as a client in vmware the network information was changed to static and I did not have any entries in the /etc/resolve.conf (default install). Add these lines to fix (or your desired) DNS IP):
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 208.67.222.222
Second note/question. The physical network adaptor on the server used for the WAN is set to an IP outside of my internal network subnet. This and when ASG is connected to the WAN seems to present a fairly secure network. Is the only time of exposure when ASG has not yet connected to the WAN via the virtual adapter? While connected the IP is from the ISP which is straight into ASG and all ports are stealth.
Thx.
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