Cannot update, Server says "111 Connection Refused"

[Markus Mayer]

Since (roughly) one day, when I try to run a package list update the update fails with the following error(s):

"W: Konnte http://de.packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/Release.gpg nicht holen Konnte nicht mit de.packages.medibuntu.org:80 verbinden (78.46.32.117). - connect (111 Connection refused)

W: Konnte http://de.packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/free/i18n/Translation-de.bz2 nicht holen Konnte nicht mit de.packages.medibuntu.org:80 verbinden (78.46.32.117). - connect (111 Connection refused)

(...etc...)"

In english this would be something like "could not connect to de.packages.medibuntu.org". I've followed the instructions on the packages page - and http://www.medibuntu.org is working without any problems.

The /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list contains following lines:

## Medibuntu - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS "hardy heron"
## Please report any bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

This is the second time within a months that the "de" mirror is making trouble.

Markus

[Prosper (prosper-nl)]

I've got the same problem since a day or two: when doing "sudo apt-get update", I get this response:
W: Ophalen van http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 87.98.249.30 80] is mislukt

W: Ophalen van http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 87.98.249.30 80] is mislukt

The site www.medibuntu.org is up and running, but when calling directly for http://packages.medibuntu.org (just to try) I get a redirect to some blog ... Is there a possible link with the problems where encountering ?

[Maxence DUNNEWIND (maxenced)]

Hi,

indeed, two of our servers have failed in 2 days ...
We're currently trying to put it up again.
Since both are in de.p.m.org, this dns can't be reached, so please use global dns (packages.m.org).

For the global domain, you just have to retry if you get the bad ip.

Cheers,

Maxence

[Rafael Gattringer (rafael.gattringer)]

Just for the record, right now the server packages.medibuntu.org = dunnewind.net (88.191.30.43) is very slow.

Example (APT): 72% [152 acroread 3314802/29,5MB 11%] 2500B/s 8h20m24s

[Rafael Gattringer (rafael.gattringer)]

Workaround: Use http://fr.packages.medibuntu.org/ as mirror. Thanks France. :)

[Maxence DUNNEWIND (maxenced)]

The 88.191.30.43 is the main server, so it handles a lot of requests (medibuntu rsync from all mirrors, medibuntu apt request, dns requests, and many other things), so it may be slow sometimes.

And, for information, 88.191.30.43 is also in France :) Just that fr. mirrors have really less requests than the general dns :)

Cheers,

Maxence

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

No more comment, so I guess this issue has been fixed.

[Jeremy Wilkins (wjeremy)]

Well, this seems to have resurrected as an issue again. The site is yet again unresponsive.

[powerpanda (zveda2000-gmail)]

I have this problem on my university computer which is behind a proxy, but not on my home computer. I am using Ubuntu Lucid.