Servers down? <SOLVED>

Mitch Thompson mitchthompson at satx.rr.com
Sun Nov 27 23:20:37 UTC 2005


Mitch Thompson wrote:
> L. Boggio wrote:
> 
>>Le 27/11/05, Mitch Thompson a dit :
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have been unable to do an "apt-get update" since yesterday evening.
>>>When I run the comand, I get the following:
>>>
>>>root at colossus:~# apt-get update
>>>Err http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release.gpg
>>> Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (82.211.81.138). - connect
>>>(111 Connection refused)
>>
>>.../...
>>
>>
>>>Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
>>>
>>>The sites are "up", they can be pinged and tracerouted to.  If I go to
>>>the site with Mozilla, I get an index page of the wwwroot.
>>>
>>>Anyone else?
>>
>> 
>>Nope, I've got no problems... didn't you set some security tweaks that
>>could block apt-get and allow Mozilla ? 
>>
>>
> 
> 
> That very well could be.  Time to start digging...

Well, duh.  Sometimes it pays for the left-hand to know what the right
one is doing...

I use IPCop as my router/firewall.  It is very good.  Anyway, I recently
installed DansGuardian, and made my proxy into a transparent proxy.  Any
attempt to try to bypass the proxy gets a refused requester.  I wasn't
putting that event together with these error messages.

So, I put the appropriate entries into /etc/apt/apt.conf to tell apt-get
where the proxy port is, and all is well again.

Thank you very much, L. Boggio, for pointing me in the right direction.
--
Mitch Thompson, San Antonio, Texas//WB5UZG
Red Hat Certified Engineer




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