[ale] apt-get : waiting for headers

[Barry Hawkins]

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John Wells wrote:
| Guys,
|
| I've run various flavors of Debian here at work.  Invariably, I have
| problems with apt-get, especially when running "apt-get update".  It will
| hit a few sources, and then hang with "Waiting for headers".
|
| I can run the same command from home (same distro, same sources) and it
| has no problems, so I'm certain it's something related to our network.
|
| Anyone had similar problems?  Were you able to resolve them somehow?
[...]
What mirrors are in your /etc/apt/sources.list?  I have had trouble
where certain places block FTP and other flaky stuff like that.  You
could test each of your mirrors/sources with pings or traceroutes and
see if you can pinpoint the problematic ones.

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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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