us.archive.ubuntu.com server not working

[Larry Starr]

For the past 5 days I have been attempting to upgrade from:
Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
to 14.04 "Trusty"

Get packages fails on the final package:
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]

I can confirm connectivity to that IP via Ping.

Attempted to fetch the package with "wget":

wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
--2014-09-07 10:37:13-- http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
Resolving us.archive.ubuntu.com (us.archive.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.91.14, 91.189.91.15, 91.189.91.13, ...
Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (us.archive.ubuntu.com)|91.189.91.14|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed out) in headers.
Retrying.

--2014-09-07 10:52:16-- (try: 2) http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (us.archive.ubuntu.com)|91.189.91.14|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed out) in headers.
Retrying.

--2014-09-07 11:07:18-- (try: 3) http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (us.archive.ubuntu.com)|91.189.91.14|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed out) in headers.
Retrying.

...
Can't tell if the problem is with the archive or the "dist-upgrade" package list(s)?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This works with .13 and .15, but not .14.

 $ wget http://91.189.91.15/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
--2014-09-09 10:12:40-- http://91.189.91.15/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
Connecting to 91.189.91.15:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7120 (7.0K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb.1’

100%[==============================================================================================================>] 7,120 --.-K/s in 0.001s

2014-09-09 10:12:40 (5.30 MB/s) - ‘libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb.1’ saved [7120/7120]

[ 10:12AM ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp ]
 $ wget http://91.189.91.14/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
--2014-09-09 10:12:49-- http://91.189.91.14/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
Connecting to 91.189.91.14:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2014-09-09 10:12:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.

[ 10:12AM ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp ]
 $ wget http://91.189.91.13/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
--2014-09-09 10:12:54-- http://91.189.91.13/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
Connecting to 91.189.91.13:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7120 (7.0K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb.2’

100%[==============================================================================================================>] 7,120 --.-K/s in 0.001s

2014-09-09 10:12:54 (4.92 MB/s) - ‘libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb.2’ saved [7120/7120]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Paul Collins (pjdc)]

The connection timeouts are likely due to increased load on the US mirror pool in the past few days, which we are working to correct.

As for the 404, this looks to be due to an inconsistency in Apache config, which demands a suitable host header, i.e.

== No Host Header ==
$ wget -nv -O/dev/null http://91.189.91.14/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
http://91.189.91.14/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb:
2014-09-10 10:27:31 ERROR 404: Not Found.

== With Host Header ==
$ [agnew(~)] wget --header 'Host: archive.ubuntu.com' -nv -O/dev/null http://91.189.91.14/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb
2014-09-10 10:28:16 URL:http://91.189.91.14/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xine-lib/libxine1-plugins_1.1.21-2ubuntu1_all.deb [7120/7120] -> "/dev/null" [1]