Hi there, I am wondering about the following - what’s going on?
System: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (jammy)
Issue: The Nitrokey repository at repo.nitrokey.com
is failing DNS resolution, causing apt update
to fail when fetching from this source.
Error output:
Ign:14 https://repo.nitrokey.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Fehl:14 https://repo.nitrokey.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
»repo.nitrokey.com« konnte nicht aufgelöst werden.
W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://repo.nitrokey.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy/InRelease »repo.nitrokey.com« konnte nicht aufgelöst werden.
DNS investigation:
- Multiple DNS servers (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, local resolver) all return “No answer” for
repo.nitrokey.com
dig repo.nitrokey.com NS
shows no nameserver records for the subdomain
- Main domain
nitrokey.com
resolves fine and uses Cloudflare DNS (skip.ns.cloudflare.com
)
- Domain registration is valid until 2025-08-15
Question:
Is this a known infrastructure issue? Has the repository been moved to a different URL, or is this a temporary DNS configuration problem?
Any guidance on the correct repository URL for Ubuntu 22.04 would be appreciated.
Thank you!
something seems to have been fixed just today, great, it works now!
oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$ dig repo.nitrokey.com NS
; <<>> DiG 9.18.30-0ubuntu0.24.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> repo.nitrokey.com NS
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8351
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;repo.nitrokey.com. IN NS
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nitrokey.com. 1705 IN SOA skip.ns.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2374870390 10000 2400 604800 1800
;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 13 22:21:23 CEST 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105
here (note I also upgraded that system to 24.04 - but I don’t think that was related … but not entirely sure - anyways:
oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble
oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$ apt search nitrokey
Sortierung… Fertig
Volltextsuche… Fertig
hsmwiz/noble,noble 0.0.2-2 all
Easy handling of NitroKey HSM USB Smard Card
libnitrokey-common/noble,noble 3.7-1.1 all
architecture independent files for libnitrokey
libnitrokey-dev/noble 3.7-1.1 amd64
library to communicate with Nitrokey stick devices (development)
libnitrokey3/noble 3.7-1.1 amd64
library to communicate with Nitrokey stick devices
librust-nitrokey-dev/noble 0.3.4-3 amd64
Rust bindings for libnitrokey - Rust source code
librust-nitrokey-sys-dev/noble 3.4.3-2 amd64
Low-level bindings to libnitrokey - Rust source code
librust-nitrokey-test-dev/noble 0.3.2-1 amd64
supporting test infrastructure for the nitrokey crate - Rust source code
nitrocli/noble 0.2.4-2 amd64
command line interface for Nitrokey devices
nitrokey-app/noble 1.4.2-1ubuntu2 amd64
Application to manage the Nitrokey
nitrokey-authenticator/noble 1.2.4-2build3 amd64
TOTP authenticator app that's using Nitrokey Pro2 and/or LibremKey
python3-pkcs11/noble 0.7.0-1build2 amd64
high level PKCS#11 interface for Python
oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$