Synaptic Package Manager Not Downloading

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On 01/25/2013 11:10 AM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
> 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 ..???
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> --
> 
> 
> 
> 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/
> :~$

jack at Nebo:~$ ping us.archive.ubuntu.com
PING us.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.91.15) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from likho.canonical.com (91.189.91.15): icmp_req=1 ttl=50
time=40.7 ms
64 bytes from likho.canonical.com (91.189.91.15): icmp_req=2 ttl=50
time=41.9 ms
64 bytes from likho.canonical.com (91.189.91.15): icmp_req=3 ttl=50
time=41.6 ms
^C
- --- us.archive.ubuntu.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 40.793/41.470/41.936/0.489 ms

seems ok here - try the ip addr and see if you get similar results...

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