apt-get update fails to fetch from repo but wget works

[no_mayl]

I'm seeing fetch errors both from synaptics and sudo apt-get update.

sudo apt-get update shows:
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg Connection failed [IP: 146.137.96.15 80]

But if I wget that same url, no problems:
wget -O - http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg
--21:40:47-- http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg
=> `-'
Resolving us.archive.ubuntu.com... 146.137.96.15, 146.137.96.7
Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com|146.137.96.15|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 189 [text/plain]

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I can put the apt-get update in a loop, it always fails while at the same time a wget in a loop never fails.

I'm a missing some magic config that is prevent synaptic and apt-get update from working?
Because it sure does not look like a network problem.
--
jpa

[no_mayl]

doh. dumb config|user.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1107990&postcount=5

--- /etc/apt/apt.conf.20061016 2006-10-16 21:51:40.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/apt/apt.conf 2006-10-16 21:57:13.000000000 -0700
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Acquire::http::Proxy "false";

Removing that line worked just fine.

You would expect that "false" means "don't do anything" but apparently not in this case. And, why does it work for some repos and not others?