apt repositories are broken for precise

[Ed Statham]

sudo apt-get update reports broken links from various repositories, for example:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-security/universe/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]

I am in New Zealand. This has been the case for two weeks now, basically all apt-get updates are broken. Some idea of when this will be fixed would be nice.

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

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[Ed Statham (edward-statham-5)]

Amazing - a few hours after posting the above bug report all the NZ repos are back in action.
Thanks guys.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lauri Rintala (lauri-rintala)]

I'm facing this issue in Finland, yet I don't know whether its the distro or network-related thing, DNS server or something. My own precise distros failed to update last night, and now at work this 10.04 updates without any problem.

[Lauri Rintala (lauri-rintala)]

The Finnish repos are now back in action.

[Ed Statham (edward-statham-5)]

This has malfunctioned again in NZ. A lot of 502 Proxy error messages from various repositories, mainly security.ubuntu.com.
Please can we get this fixed, this is causing major disruption.

[Ed Statham (edward-statham-5)]

Please can someone give an idea of how to get this fixed. Don't think it's just a NZ mirror problem - I've tried with au instead of nz in the URLs with the same result.