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apt update fails with the following errors messages:

$ apt update
Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Err:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.161 80]
Err:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-security/InRelease  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.161 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/InRelease  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

But wget works for the same url:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease
--2018-09-26 12:12:17--  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease
Resolving archive.ubuntu.com (archive.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.88.152, 91.189.88.149, 91.189.88.161, ...
Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (archive.ubuntu.com)|91.189.88.152|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 242048 (236K)
Saving to: ‘InRelease’

InRelease                                   100%[==========================================================================================>] 236.38K  1.42MB/s    in 0.2s

2018-09-26 12:12:17 (1.42 MB/s) - ‘InRelease’ saved [242048/242048]
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  • Are you on a corporate or school network with a proxy? Has apt failed for more than 12 hours?
    – user535733
    Sep 26, 2018 at 12:56
  • i am on corporate network without any proxy.... its a new build of ubuntu 18.04.01 and its getting failed.
    – Vinod Kumar
    Sep 26, 2018 at 14:46
  • Are you really really sure there's no proxy? What you have described seems like a classic incorrect apt-proxy setting.
    – user535733
    Sep 26, 2018 at 17:48
  • @user535733 i have even disabled the proxy in the /etc/environment file... i donot see nay proxy configuration under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ as well... env | grep -i proxy https_proxy= http_proxy= ftp_proxy= . Below is the source list i am using... do i need to use any different repos..... it is connecting fine with wget command cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main deb archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main deb archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main
    – Vinod Kumar
    Sep 28, 2018 at 13:27
  • @Vinod Kuma did you get any solution for this ?
    – Bhargav Patel
    Sep 25, 2019 at 7:21

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