Are Ubuntu 20.04 updates failing on in.archive.ubuntu.com [duplicate]

Question

apt-get update is failing on India location. Its not able to reach out to in.archive.ubuntu.com.

Below is the error :

# apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease                  
Err:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                         
  Cannot initiate the connection to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2403:8940:ffff::f). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) Could not connect to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (103.97.84.254), connection timed out
Err:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
  Cannot initiate the connection to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2403:8940:ffff::f). - connect (101: Network is unreachable)
Err:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
  Cannot initiate the connection to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2403:8940:ffff::f). - connect (101: Network is unreachable)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease  Cannot initiate the connection to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2403:8940:ffff::f). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) Could not connect to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (103.97.84.254), connection timed out
W: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-updates/InRelease  Cannot initiate the connection to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2403:8940:ffff::f). - connect (101: Network is unreachable)
W: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-backports/InRelease  Cannot initiate the connection to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2403:8940:ffff::f). - connect (101: Network is unreachable)
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Can someone please suggest / help here.

Answer 1

Thanks to DK Bose's comment, changing server helped. It fails intermittently though, but it started working. Here is how to get around with this issue. Run the following as root

cd /etc/apt
sed -i 's/in\./us\./g' sources.list

Below should be the output of your next apt-get update

# apt-get update 
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB]
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                               
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease                       
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [98.3 kB]
Hit:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Fetched 205 kB in 6s (36.3 kB/s)                 
Reading package lists... Done

Hope this helps!

~Abhay Dandekar

Answer 2

All the Indian repos are not reachable.

We can temporarily point to US or any other locale repos. But I am hoping that the Ubuntu team will look into the issue and fix it.