Re: apt-get: Error: Timeout was reached

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 22:20:12 +0200
Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de> wrote:

> root@master:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
(...)
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
> contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main 
> contrib non-free

here the entry in sources.list looks slightly different:

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

I wouldn't think this makes much difference, but just in case the timeout
occurs always with the security mirror it might be worth a try.

> root@master:~/tmp# curl -I http://security.debian.org/debian-security/
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:19:23 GMT
> Server: Apache
> X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
> X-Frame-Options: sameorigin
> Referrer-Policy: no-referrer
> X-Xss-Protection: 1
> Cache-Control: max-age=120
> Expires: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:21:23 GMT
> X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
> Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

This looks also sightly different here:

$ curl -I http://security.debian.org/
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:31:36 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: sameorigin
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer
X-Xss-Protection: 1
Location: https://www.debian.org/security/
Cache-Control: max-age=120
Expires: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:33:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

At first I thought that one of http://security.debian.org/ and
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ was just a symlink to the
other on the same machine, but maybe the above might indicate that those
mirrors are actually not identical?

Just a thought, though.

Regards

Michael

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