cannot fetch repositories

[ben darby]

* Jeff (ubuntu at n9cqs.com) wrote:
> HI.
> I am an Ubuntu newbie.   I have Dapper installed on an old Dell (Pentium
> II-400 MHz). I also have the server version installed on a similar
> machine.  Neither of them will work through my network to get to
> repositories for updating or installing new software.  
> 
> I can get to the repositories using FTP, and I even downloaded SOME of
> them and put them on the Ubuntu server using FTP.  But when trying to
> use the update manager, it tells me that the same ones that I just
> downloaded using the FTP system are unavailable via sources.list
> 
> I run a small home network with a Netgear FVS-318 router.  I have
> INsight Broadband which runs well in speed tests.  I have attempted to
> use the DMZ feature on the router to expose the Linux box directly to
> the Internet.  While I use BIND on my local system, I have forced the
> Linux box to use a variety of DNS servers thinking THAT might be the
> problem.  Nothing is working. 
> 
> Now, it would seem to me that the apt-get/update manager, etc., must
> have timing parameters that is causing it to time out before information
> can be fetched from the repositories.  I really don't want to take the
> effort to set up a small mirror on my LAN, but I guess if I must, I
> will. 

Jeff, can you provide a sample of the actual error messages, your
/etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/apt.conf

-- 
ben darby <ben at cvrse.com>
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