I have some head crunch issues with updating my Ubuntu 12.04 server system.
When I issue the following command (as root):
apt-get update
...nothing happens and after a while apt-get gives up with loads of errors like:
W: Failed to fetch http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en Unable to connect to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
Below a copy of the stdout. Please note that I didn't wait for the command to finish and aborted it with CTRL-C to save some time
root@webserver:/var/log/apt# apt-get update
0% [Connecting to nl.archive.ubuntu.com (213.136.29.218)]^C
This is how my sources.list looks like:
root@webserver:/var/log/apt# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
###### Ubuntu Main Repos
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
deb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted
deb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
My /etc/apt.apt.conf
is empty and no proxy is in use
root@webserver:/var/log/apt# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
root@webserver:/var/log/apt# echo $http_proxy
root@web-octoplus01:/var/log/apt# echo $HTTP_PROXY
root@web-octoplus01:/var/log/apt#
Using the US mirrors gives the same result. Special with the US mirrors is that every third try it suddenly works! (Only the 91.189.91.14 address works, the rest results in the same errors)
root@web-octoplus01:/var/log/apt# host us.archive.ubuntu.com
us.archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.91.14
us.archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.91.15
us.archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.91.13
us.archive.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address 2001:67c:1562::15
us.archive.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address 2001:67c:1562::13
us.archive.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address 2001:67c:1562::14
Can it be that my server is on some inconsistent black-list at Ubuntu?
What do I not see?