Synaptic Package Manager Not Downloading

[Bahn, Nathan]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2013 07:44 PM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 25 January 2013 07:59 AM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
>
> The machine that I'm using has 12.04LTS.  All attempts at downloading
> packages fail.  Any ideas?
>
>
> What error message do you get ..???
>
> --
>
>
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> W: Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/shorewall/shorewall_4.4.26.1-1_all.deb
>   Connection failed
>
>
> try to ping us.archive.ubuntu.com are you able to ping that destination
> ..??? if not then
>
> try to change your update mirror from software center, or try to change your
> DNS server
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The Chromium web browser can retrieve that URL;  the CLI ping, however, fails.
:~$ ping http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/
ping: unknown host http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/
:~$
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