[ubuntu-za] Banned ip address?

[Wesley Werner]

Hi Jan. A 403 does not mean banned, but rather that the path on that server has not been given the proper 'read' permissions to expose the contents to the public, properly. It seems the path on za.archive.ubuntu is at fault here. You could switch out to another repository url for backports if you know one, or try again later once the maintainers of the host have corrected the permissions. But it is not your IP specifically that is blocked - I get the 403 too. 

On 3 March 2015 11:43:40 SAST, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Still battling with the machine that lost its launcher and menus.
>
>I found a setting in the bios which indicated that the OS is windows 7,
>
>which I changed to Linux hoping that that would solve some problems, 
>however, after fresh install I get this following massage and no 
>downloads seem possible from the repositories although everything else 
>seems to be working fine:
>
>W: Failed to fetch 
>http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-backports/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages
>
>403 Forbidden [IP: 197.155.77.2 80]
>
>E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old 
>ones used instead.
>
>Can anybody throw some light, please?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Jan
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