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Bug#942478: marked as done (apt User-Agent causes mirrors to drop connections)

Your message dated Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:47:49 +0200
with message-id <20191017164749.p3rvgfh6ujmjlrrk@crossbow>
and subject line Re: Bug#942478: Never mind... :(
has caused the Debian Bug report #942478,
regarding apt User-Agent causes mirrors to drop connections
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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942478: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942478
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Package: apt
Version: 1.8.2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

Attempting to install Debian10.1/AMD64 and/or updating/upgrading
existing installations.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

apt update

   * What was the outcome of this action?

ERR:1 <repository URI> stable InRelease
  Connection failed [IP:<mirror IP address>]


   * What outcome did you expect instead?

The usual 'apt update' response.

What works around it: I added file /etc/apt/apt.sources.d/99useragent
and configured it to send the same User-Agent string as my Firefox web
browser. I've six machines that suffered this, and all respond well to
the workaround.

*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***


-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib

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

# buster-updates
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free

# Debian multimedia
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free

# Backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/x2go.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.118
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2019.1
ii  gpgv                    2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0           1.8.2
ii  libc6                   2.28-10
ii  libgcc1                 1:8.3.0-6
ii  libgnutls30             3.6.7-4
ii  libseccomp2             2.3.3-4
ii  libstdc++6              8.3.0-6

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20190110

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc         <none>
ii  aptitude        0.8.11-7
ii  dpkg-dev        1.19.7
ii  gnupg           2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii  gnupg2          2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii  powermgmt-base  1.34
ii  synaptic        0.84.6

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:51:18AM -0600, Art Sackett wrote:
> The culprit has been identified and it's not Debian mirrors.

Thanks for reporting back – it would have indeed been very strange…

In case someone else ever stumbles over such a problem and finds this
bugreport: My first and only hint is that some "cooperate firewall" is
blocking access to the internet for unknown agents in the small hope to
stop malware from calling home… obviously not a very effective strategy,
but I have seen it once on an open & public wifi.
In that case choosing an https mirror help to hide your "evil doing"…


Anyway, thanks again for reporting back, closing as requested &
Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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