Cannot update packages

[Bas]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 12:12 +0100, Bas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble connecting to the Ubuntu servers; when I try to
> update my package lists about half of the downloads fail with:
> 
> Error reading from server - read (104 connection reset by peer)
> 
> If I retry it gives download errors for different files but sometimes I
> can get all downloads to succeed (after many retries).
> 
> Downloading the packages themselves is even worse: about 95% will fail
> with a connection reset or the occasional time-out. The strange thing is
> that the connection only resets when the download is allmost done e.g. a
> small file will fail immediately but downloading a 10.4 MB file will
> fail at 10.3 MB.

I just tried a mirror ( ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/ubuntu ) and it
seems to work fine. I guess I'll be using that one from now on.

> So does anybody know what's going on and how to fix this?
> Is it possible that my university's NAT has something to do with this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bastiaan