[ubuntu-za] Mirrors down?

[Soren Aalto]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Arthur Rilke <arthurrilke at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Christo,
>
> Although I don't use exactly the same repos you do, I had similar
> problems around 17h or 18h this evening.
>
> I couldn't connect to the following sites: za.archive.ubuntu.com,
> mirrors.ac.za, tenet.ac.za, up.ac.za, unisa.ac.za. Even DNS lookups of
> some of these weren't working.
>

There was some major breakage on the SANReN backbone
this pm, the TENET mirror sites and pretty much everything
in .ac.za was either off or in a strange state.


>
> I have no idea what happened, but everything seems to be fine now. My
> upstream provider is Telkom.
>
> This doesn't quite explain why a repo such as that of VirtualBox isn't
> working for you, though -- the other sites above are all linked to the
> tenet network as far as I know, which might explain why they all went
> down.
>
> Arthur
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 21:54 +0200, christo wrote:
> > Hi Guys do any of you have issues connecting to the ubuntu mirrors
> > today?
> > My dsl seems fine, not capped. I can surf and what not, but then this,
> > when I check for updates.
> >
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release.gpg  Could not
> > connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (91.189.88.33). - connect (110:
> > Connection timed out)
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/partner/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to archive.canonical.com:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/Release.gpg
> > Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.92.166). - connect
> > (110: Connection timed out) [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/universe/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Could not connect to
> download.virtualbox.org:80 (137.254.16.69). - connect (110: Connection
> timed out)
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/lucid/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to download.virtualbox.org:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucid-bleed/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Could not connect to
> ppa.launchpad.net:80 (91.189.90.217). - connect (110: Connection timed
> out)
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucid-bleed/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/lucid/Release.gpg
> > Could not connect to packages.medibuntu.org:80 (88.191.127.22). -
> > connect (110: Connection timed out)
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/lucid/free/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/lucid/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/partner/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to archive.canonical.com:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/lucid/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to download.virtualbox.org:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/lucid/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> > Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucid-bleed/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/lucid/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:
> http:
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/main/source/Sources.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/restricted/source/Sources.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/universe/source/Sources.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
> [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/multiverse/source/Sources.gz
> > Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> > ones used instead.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Christo Coetzer
>
>
>
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Soren Aalto
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University of Zululand
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