apt-get update failure

[Colin Law]

On 3 August 2014 19:49, davinder kumar <dkpawankumar8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 August 2014 06:19, feora <studyfordo at 163.com> wrote:
>>> HI, guys
>>>      os: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
>>>     I can't install any software via apt-get. The following is details
>>>        Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe iotop amd64
>>> 0.6-1
>>>   Could not connect to 58.247.178.239:8081 (58.247.178.239), connection
>>> timed out
> I think you have to change your server change it to main server or
> from US- Main Server.

It is not as simple as that, the error says it is trying to get from
archive.ubuntu.com but the ip address is in China, so something is
wrong.

Colin