Comment 11 for bug 985441

I'm also getting this problem. Strayngely, I can get the package lists manually with wget, but apt-get update or aptitude update fails.

So, for example, this works:

wget http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/non-free/binary-i386/Packages

even though when I do apt-get update, I have this error (amongst others):

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http: