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 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ "I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies."