Servers down? <SOLVED>(Correction)

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:

>Mitch Thompson wrote:
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>>>L. Boggio wrote:
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>>>>Le 27/11/05, Mitch Thompson a dit :
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>>>>>I have been unable to do an "apt-get update" since yesterday evening.
>>>>>When I run the comand, I get the following:
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>>>>>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)
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>>>>>Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>Anyone else?
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>>>>Nope, I've got no problems... didn't you set some security tweaks that
>>>>could block apt-get and allow Mozilla ? 
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>>>That very well could be.  Time to start digging...
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>>Well, duh.  Sometimes it pays for the left-hand to know what the right
>>one is doing...
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Thank you very much, L. Boggio, for pointing me in the right direction.
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>>Mitch Thompson, San Antonio, Texas//WB5UZG
>>Red Hat Certified Engineer
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>Isn't the point of a transparent proxy that it requires *no* client side
>configuration?  Isn't the firewall supposed to forward http ports to the
>correct IP address and port of the proxy?
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The above should read "http requests" not "http ports".

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Brant Fitzsimmons
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