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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