etch repository problems ? - apt-get, aptitude, synaptic

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

Is there a problem with the Debian etch repository?  With the following 
"/etc/apt/sources.list", synaptic stops with the error message:
"Could not download all repository indexes"

  deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
  deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

  deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
  deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

  deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
  deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free