packages.ubuntu.com is down and no-one can connect to it

[nowshining]

repeat - it's down, if this was in the news - and u knew about it - please let me know please and ty.

edit: now it's waiting but then doesn't proceed after that right now..

[NovaAesa]

If that's where you install stuff from then it's working for me. If it's something else, n/m.

Nevermind, I thought you meant http://au.archive.ubuntu.com

[fluteflute]

It happens quite often - I don't know why - but its certainly rather fustrating.

[bobbocanfly]

It happens quite often - I don't know why - but its certainly rather fustrating.

Theres been a lot fo discussion about this on ubuntu-devel mailing list (I think, might have been -motu). They are having some trouble trying to get people to host it, so there are large outages when the owner runs out of bandwidth or something. Very annoying as it is an incredibly useful resource.

[fluteflute]

Can Canonical not host it, like they host everything else?

Edit: I've found this message (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-April/025333.html) although no replies.

2nd edit: I've found the rest of the discussion (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-May/025370.html) which concludes by saying that Canonical can host it (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-May/025445.html). There is evidence that this did happen (http://blog.djpig.de/2008/06/13). So why is it still going down regularly?

[Happy_Man]

Well, it's up and running now.

[nowshining]

happy yes it is, but, pidgin.im is not down nor I can connect to it and icq pop-ups a message about upgrading and tells to go pidgin.im, so I guess they changed the way it connects then/again - of course tho icq and aim are both from aol :P but aim works fine. However tho looking at the debug - it shows to go to the icq site and download the new icq client.

[lys1123]

I can't connect to it right now. After Firefox tries for what seems like ten minutes I get "The server at packages.ubuntu.com is taking too long to respond." Here is the current trace to packages.ubuntu.com.

1: Wireless_Broadband_Router.home (192.168.1.1) 0.672ms
2: 71.244.24.1 (71.244.24.1) 12.872ms asymm 3
3: P1-1.LCR-04.DLLSTX.verizon-gni.net (130.81.48.150) 11.456ms
4: 130.81.29.182 (130.81.29.182) 15.195ms asymm 5
5: 0.so-1-2-0.XT4.DFW9.ALTER.NET (152.63.1.165) 17.057ms asymm 6
6: 0.so-7-0-0.XL4.DFW13.ALTER.NET (152.63.98.81) 15.501ms asymm 7
7: 0.so-7-0-0.BR1.DFW13.ALTER.NET (152.63.98.69) 15.548ms asymm 8
8: 204.255.169.26 (204.255.169.26) 16.829ms asymm 9
9: so-1-2-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (209.244.15.161) 15.290ms asymm 10
10: ae-1-0.bbr2.London2.Level3.net (212.187.128.45) 125.515ms asymm 16
11: ae-16-53.car2.London2.Level3.net (4.68.117.80) 192.794ms asymm 17
12: 195.50.121.2 (195.50.121.2) 131.860ms asymm 19
13: gw0-0-gr.canonical.com (91.189.88.10) 133.327ms asymm 19
14: no reply
15: no reply
16: no reply
17: no reply


So it does look like Canonical is hosting it now... but it is still down.

[gsmanners]

91.189.94.219 is where I see it. Maybe a DNS issue?

[master_kernel]

It's down again.

[original_jamingrit]

I'm unable to connect to it as well. Trying to download the latest aMSN deb.

[blithen]

Hmm..weird thing is you can ping it.

[kostkon]

I'm unable to connect to it as well. Trying to download the latest aMSN deb.
Why not head to getdeb.net (http://getdeb.net/) for that?

[Joeb454]

Or compile it from source? It's not that hard...

[gsmanners]

Or one of the many mirrors. For example:

http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/
http://mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu/
http://mirrors.acm.jhu.edu/ubuntu/
http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu/

[original_jamingrit]

Why not head to getdeb.net (http://getdeb.net/) for that?


Or compile it from source? It's not that hard...


Or one of the many mirrors. For example:

doh, thanks folks. It's for a buddy's computer, and I wanted the deb because I wanted him to be able to manage it through synaptic or apt.

[shirsch]

Or one of the many mirrors. For example:

http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/
http://mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu/
http://mirrors.acm.jhu.edu/ubuntu/
http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu/

Perhaps I'm missing the obvious, but none of those appear to support the search function used by 'getlibs' (install 32-bit compatibility libs in x86_64 Ubuntu).

[fluteflute]

If you pull up a terminal you can do "aptitude search ****".

[hellmet]

It seems to be down again.

[t0p]

Not from here mate. (Here being somewhere you aren't.)

[Irihapeti]

Was down briefly from NZ but is now back up again.

[Vistaus]

It's down again since yesterday :(

[fluteflute]

Still down now. :(
It's rather important for the getlibs script, so hoping it comes back online sooner rather than later!

[Vistaus]

Still down now. :(
It's rather important for the getlibs script, so hoping it comes back online sooner rather than later!

It's not down anymore here. I can connect to packages.ubuntu.com again since a few days :)

[Physical Hook]

It's not down anymore here. I can connect to packages.ubuntu.com again since a few days :)

Nah, it's down ( speaking from what I see ).

[joneswm]

It's still down here for me too.
This seems to be a pretty fundamental thing to be down - a rare Ubuntu disappointment.

[NoaHall]

Have you tried going to System -> Admin -> Software Sources -> Select best server?

[fluteflute]

Have you tried going to System -> Admin -> Software Sources -> Select best server?
That is irrelevant.

packages.ubuntu.com is a completely different service to archive.ubuntu.com

[hsmak_linux]

Still down now. :(
It's rather important for the getlibs script, so hoping it comes back online sooner rather than later!

Even me that I'm in need to this packages website just to get "getlibs" script working.

I'm wondering why they don't have a back-up server???

[hsmak_linux]

At last packages.ubuntu.org (http://packages.ubuntu.com/) is up!

Hurry up before it gets down :D

[fluteflute]

Yay, now I can install the Amazon MP3 whatsit with getlibs :D