Re: apt-get update hanging on security and backports.
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:20:11 -0400, Ed Jabbour <ejbr@att.net> wrote:
> On Monday, October 12, 2015 02:34:25 AM Reco wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:19:32 -0400
> >
> > Ed Jabbour <ejbr@att.net> wrote:
> > > Running Wheezy. Recently, update has been hanging on
> > > http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main and
> > > http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main.
> >
> > Have you tested the possibility of MTU blackhole somewhere between
> > you and security.debian.org?
> >
> > I.e. given conventional Ethernet, and normal circumstances, this
> > should work:
> >
> > ping -s 1472 -M dont -c 4 security.debian.org
> >
> > But if something just discards IP packets with MTU 1500 along the
> > way, such ping would fail.
> >
> > Reco
>
> I ran it and got:
>
> [Mon Oct 12]~ $ ping -s 1472 -M dont -c 4 security.debian.org
> PING security.debian.org (128.61.240.73) 1472(1500) bytes of data.
> 1480 bytes from sechter.debian.org (128.61.240.73): icmp_req=1 ttl=52
> time=70.3 mshttp.debian.net/
> 1480 bytes from sechter.debian.org (128.61.240.73): icmp_req=2 ttl=52
> time=70.5 ms
> 1480 bytes from sechter.debian.org (128.61.240.73): icmp_req=3 ttl=52
> time=70.7 ms
> 1480 bytes from sechter.debian.org (128.61.240.73): icmp_req=4 ttl=52
> time=70.7 ms
>
> Looks OK to me. I changed the backports repo from debian.net to
> uchicago.edu and everything just flows. Now, if I can only find the
> problem with security.debian.net, which as I understand it, has no
> trustworthy mirrors
You should try using http://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/ for your stable,
stable-updates and such. By far the best and fastest Debian mirror I know of.
For security, try using http://security.debian.org/ as opposed to .net.
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