I'm cross-posting this to user and security, because there are really two
(possibly-related) issues here. Feel free to take replies to just one list
or the other.
On my firewall (running potato), I have been using these apt sources.list
entries:
deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free
However, suddenly, 'apt-get update' started failing with errors of the form:
Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages
Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40).
for each of the entries. I've finally worked around this by using these
sources.list entries:
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free
First question: any idea why the original http source.list entries suddenly
stopped working? The URLs that apt-get complains about seem to be available
via lynx, so connectivity is apparently not the issue. Running strace on
'apt-get update' shows me an error "400 URI Failure", but I'm not sure where
that leads me. I can go dig through the code next, but...
Second question: what's up with the security URL that I needed for FTP? I
would have expected to use "ftp://security.debian.org", but the "dists"
directory exists under "ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security" instead.
Thanks in advance for the information. I guess I've worked around this for
now, but I'd like to know what happened.
KEN
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