apt-get update failing to reach servers

Noah noah-list at enabled.com
Fri Jan 7 18:23:05 UTC 2022


Hi there,

What is the best way to fix this?  I am unable to reach the ubuntu repos

Cheers,

Noah


$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS"



$ sudo apt-get update
Err:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
   Could not connect to banjo.canonical.com:80 (91.189.91.38), 
connection timed out Could not connect to kazooie.canonical.com:80 
(91.189.91.39), connection timed out Unable to connect to 
us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
Err:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
   Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
Err:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
   Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
Err:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
   Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch 
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease  Could not 
connect to banjo.canonical.com:80 (91.189.91.38), connection timed out 
Could not connect to kazooie.canonical.com:80 (91.189.91.39), connection 
timed out Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
W: Failed to fetch 
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-updates/InRelease 
Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
W: Failed to fetch 
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-backports/InRelease 
Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
W: Failed to fetch 
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-security/InRelease 
Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old 
ones used instead.


:~$ ping us.archive.ubuntu.com
PING us.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.91.38) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- us.archive.ubuntu.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6129ms

:~$ ping banjo.canonical.com
PING banjo.canonical.com (91.189.91.38) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- banjo.canonical.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms





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