unable to update ubuntu 14.01

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 13 August 2014 01:28:04 SISAY ALEMAYEHU did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Thanks alot,
> 
> Now I am able to update after setting DNS proxy.
> 
> Regards,
> Sisay
 
I got this from another list.  Our dns problems are real, the major 
players in the ISP game have hit a limit of 512k entries in the BGP tables 
of their routers.  BGP=Border Gateway Protocol.

With the growing size of this table, it was predicted by some back in May 
that we'd hit the limit in August or September.  Now we've hit it, and now 
the guys with the really big pipes are bing forced to deploy new dns 
servers with even more dram, with some software fixes to allow the bigger 
BGP tables.  It will get fixed in due time, but multicore machines with a 
terrabyte plus of dram per core have a cost that gets the cfo's attention 
& he has to be beat about the brow with a suitable cluebat before he'll 
authorize the expense.

In the meantime, if you can co-erce your machines to use the google 
servers as secondary lookups, it might help.  I wouldn't use them as the 
primary lookup because if the whole planet switched, even those will be 
overwhelmed.

But I would do that only as a last resort, it really is up to _your_ ISP 
to fix it.  That is one of the services that you are paying them for.

> On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:17 AM, Martinx - م‚¸م‚§مƒ¼مƒ م‚؛
> <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> It is not a DNS problem... The names got resolved, but it can't
> connect... Seems to be a connectivity problem...
> 
> On 12 August 2014 21:32, Erick Ocrospoma <zipper1790 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 8 August 2014 01:01, SISAY ALEMAYEHU <sisaleang at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >Dear All,
> >
> >>I just installed ubuntu 14.01 and try to upgdate using sudo apt-get
> >>update, it just gave me the following message [sudo] password for
> >>sisay:
> >>Err http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty
> >>InReleaseآ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ
> >> آ آ آ  آ
> >>Err http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty
> >>Release.gpgآ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ
> >> آ آ  آ  Unable to connect to
> 
>  extras.ubuntu.com:http:
> >>Err http://archive.canonical.com trusty
> >>InReleaseآ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ 
> >>آ
> >>Err http://archive.canonical.com trusty
> >>Release.gpgآ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ آ  آ 
> >>Cannot initiate the connection to archive.canonical.com:80
> >>(2001:67c:1360:8c01::16). - connect (101: Network is unreachable)
> >>[IP: 2001:67c:1360:8c01::16 80] 0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com
> >>(91.189.91.14)]
> >>
> >>
> >>Can you help me please?
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Sisay
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >It seems to be a DNS problem. Check your DNS addresses.


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