Jochen Schulz wrote:
Alle Meije Wink:Err ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable Release.gpg Could not connect data socket, connection timed outThe mirror is either temporarily broken or down for good, Just use another one, there's nothing else you can do.
I confirm it has been unreliable recently. Sometimes works fine. Unfortunately other UK mirrors are iffy too. ftp.uk.debian.org is working fine for me at the moment. Allied to the problem so I will speak up: -Package netselect is broken for a large class of users, 6+ year old fatal bug misclassified as wishlist I guess someone thought that pass through firewall was a major code change, hence wishlist, is apparently not that at all.
netselect-apt incorrectly complains about the firewall netselect fails silently. The above fails here as described. Here is one page with the fix, not sure if there are other places http://forum.soft32.com/linux/Bug-451889-FIXED-netselect-unable-find-mirror-ftopict467629.html