On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 05:55:55PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote:
> For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're
> having, the workaround is to create the file
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with:
>
> Acquire
> {
> http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0";
> };
>
> This changes apt's HTTP User-Agent string to that of a recent Firefox,
> which magically prevents the mirror servers from dropping apt's
> connections.
>
> This is Debian bug #942478:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942478
Hm. That sounds funny (not impossible, though).
Perhaps there's a misconfigured (transparent) proxy between you
and the mirror (your ISP?)...
Are others experiencing that?
Sorry if I ask something you already posted: which mirror are
you using?
Cheers
-- tomás
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