Bug#75733: apt: http method broken (after libc6 update ??)

[Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: normal

I'm stuck with an apt problem: Since about two weeks, apt's http method
doesn't work any more. The machine is a mixed woody/potato installation;
libc6 and friends are now all from woody (and I have the suspicion that the
problem came after updating some of them). A potato machine in the same
network still works, and a woody machine on another network also still
works. the ftp method also seems to work.

I'm lost how to debug this problem, I didn't find a debug switch in apt-get.
The errors look like this:

freefly;3# apt-get update
Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages
  Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40).
Err http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Packages
  Could not connect to non-us.debian.org (132.229.131.40).
Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Release
  Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40).


  




-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux freefly 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 i586

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.1.95-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library            

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