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can not connect to update-pages

Asked by yulia

Dear Support,

I have the latest UBUNTU version installed on my HP laptop. Recently (after some unauthorized intervention) I've faced the following problem: when I try to connect to ubuntu update-archieves (either via apt-get or with the Synaptic package manager) I get the errors of the kind:

W: Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openldap2.2/slapd_2.2.26-5ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
  Could not connect to 192.168.201.254:8080 (192.168.201.254), connection
timed out

W: Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openldap2.2/libldap-2.2-7_2.2.26-5ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
  Could not connect to 192.168.201.254:8080 (192.168.201.254), connection
timed out

W: Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.2.2-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
  Could not connect to 192.168.201.254:8080 (192.168.201.254), connection
timed out

To notice is, that whatever address stays after the http:: the system tries to connect to a (non-existing) ip: 192.168.201.254. Editing of the /etc/apt/sources.list does not influences this fact. Only if I comment out everything there, nothing at all will happen. When I put any address in the sources.list, it will try to connect to the 192.168.201.254 at doing anything with apt-get.

I searched in every relevant file I could think of to find if this ip was hard coded, but didn't succeed. Do you perhaps have some ideas where it could be set?

After asking my more experienced colleges and searching in forums for the solution you seem to be the last hope...

Thanks a lot beforehand!

With very best regards,

Yulia Sandamirskaya

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Dean Sas (dsas) said : 		#1

The 192.168.201.254 ip address is obviously wrong as it's an ip address reserved for "private use", i.e. not for internet use.

I'd check your dns server or network configuration. Your DNS server seems to be saying that the security.ubuntu.com server is on your local network.

You could try using this ip address 82.211.81.138 rather than the security.ubuntu.com name while you sort the problem out.

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