Intrepid repos, my box can't get there

[Michael Hipp]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> I can't seem to access the Intrepid repos very well.
> 
> When I do apt-get update it stalls for ages and eventually dies with stuff like 
> this:
> 
> W: Failed to fetch 
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/multiverse/source/Sources.gz 
>   Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> 
> If I try that file with wget it fails with this:
> 
> $ wget 
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/multiverse/source/Sources.gz
> --2008-10-24 10:10:45-- 
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/multiverse/source/Sources.gz
> Resolving us.archive.ubuntu.com... 91.189.88.45, 91.189.88.46, 91.189.88.31
> Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com|91.189.88.45|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed out) in 
> headers.
> Retrying.
> 
> When I go to the Dapper box setting beside it all these things work fine. I can 
> connect to those web sites from the browser on my desktop and reach them fine.
> 
> Doing traceroute on the two machines to us.archive.ubuntu.com looks identical 
> (appears both of them end up at leningradskaya.canonical.com).
> 
> I have an Intrepid machine at another site that has no problems reaching the repos.
> 
> I've had this problem with every Intrepid machine I've tried at this particular 
> site. But not other release or other sites. Can anyone give me some ideas of 
> how to troubleshoot this?

Well after much searching eventually found a solution/workaround here:

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/264019
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/272896

Appears there's a kernel patch from about a day ago that's intended to offer a 
fix at some point but unknown if it will make it into final.

Thanks to all those that replied privately and tried to help.

Michael