Issue downloading files from FTP server to Ubuntu 16.04.2 VM (Azure)

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7.4 years ago

parism9 ▴ 30

I am trying to download some data from the UniProtKB website. I have a Ubuntu 16.04.2 VM hosted on Azure.

The main repository is hosted here. I want to download one of the .gz files, but when I use wget (wget "pathtofile") I have the following error:

wget: unable to resolve host address ‘ftp.uniprot.org’

I have tried the same thing with a clone of the UniProt DB that is here, and it works fine for download. Is this an issue with UniProt? The same issue happens with ftp and scp.

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ADD COMMENT • link 7.4 years ago by parism9 ▴ 30

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unable to resolve host address ‘ftp.uniprot.org’

Looks like the DNS on your azure VM is not correctly setup. Take a look at the network configuration to see if you are missing DNS server entries or are using incorrect ones.

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