cannot fetch repositories

[Jeff]

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 12:31 +1100, ben darby wrote:
> * Jeff (ubuntu at n9cqs.com) wrote:
> > HI.
> > I am an Ubuntu newbie.   I have Dapper installed on an old Dell (Pentium
> > II-400 MHz). I also have the server version installed on a similar
> > machine.  Neither of them will work through my network to get to
> > repositories for updating or installing new software.  
> > 
> > I can get to the repositories using FTP, and I even downloaded SOME of
> > them and put them on the Ubuntu server using FTP.  But when trying to
> > use the update manager, it tells me that the same ones that I just
> > downloaded using the FTP system are unavailable via sources.list
> > 
> > I run a small home network with a Netgear FVS-318 router.  I have
> > INsight Broadband which runs well in speed tests.  I have attempted to
> > use the DMZ feature on the router to expose the Linux box directly to
> > the Internet.  While I use BIND on my local system, I have forced the
> > Linux box to use a variety of DNS servers thinking THAT might be the
> > problem.  Nothing is working. 
> > 
> > Now, it would seem to me that the apt-get/update manager, etc., must
> > have timing parameters that is causing it to time out before information
> > can be fetched from the repositories.  I really don't want to take the
> > effort to set up a small mirror on my LAN, but I guess if I must, I
> > will. 
> 
> Jeff, can you provide a sample of the actual error messages, your
> /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/apt.conf
> 
OK.  First, here is sources.list

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main
restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as
to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
security
## team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the
'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful
features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
restricted
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe


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second, here is apt.conf

Acquire::http::Proxy "false";



Third, the errors:

http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg: Connection
failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/Release.gpg:
Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/source/Sources.gz:
Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/source/Sources.gz: Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/main/source/Sources.gz: Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/restricted/source/Sources.gz: Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.7 80]




Again, I can connect to the above repositories via HTTP (directly)
through a browser.  I can also connect to the FTP counterparts.  I have
even played with downloading some of the repositories by hand and
placing them on my local (LAN) webserver (Apache on Ubuntu server
running on my system here).  While I was unable to download enough of
the repository to do an actual update (from my LAN), I did get farther
than I do if the thing has to go out on the internet.  This tells me
that there is a timing or connection issue of some kind. 

Thanks for your help.