apt-get br0ken

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:41:58 -0400, J wrote:
>Perhaps just a hiccup?  Or perhaps you're getting routed to a bad
>mirror? bladernr at galactica:/etc/apt$ host archive.ubuntu.com
>archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.162
>archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.161
>archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.149
>archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.152

$ host archive.ubuntu.com 
archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.161
archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.149
archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.152
archive.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.88.162
archive.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address 2001:67c:1360:8001::17
archive.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address 2001:67c:1560:8001::14
archive.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address 2001:67c:1560:8001::11
archive.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address 2001:67c:1360:8001::21

The OP could run

  firefox 91.189.88.1{49,52,61,62} >/dev/null 2>&1

to if they are accessible.