[Neurodebian-users] Vanderbilt mirror error message

[Bennet Fauber]

Yes, I get an infinite hang when using apt-get

$ apt-get update

as soon as it hits masi.vuse.  I too can get the timestamp using wget,
and, it seems, I can get to if from a browser off-campus.  When I put
the addresses into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neurodebian.sources.list I
get

Get:11 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe
i386 Packages [373 kB]
0% [Waiting for headers]

essentially forever.  And... I can get to it using a browser on the
same machine. (?!)  I get a listing of files at
http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian

So, the issue appears only to be when using apt-get...?  I did try
after disabling the host firewall, too, just in case.  This is a
machine behind a NAT, but I could swear it worked for many months
about a year ago and then stopped, maybe during the summer.

Sorry to clog up the mailing list with this....

-- bennet



On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, Bennet Fauber wrote:
>
>> The Vanderbilt mirror at
>
>>     http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian
>
>> still appears to be down
>
> what are the signs for you -- the same as for me, which is just hanging,
> although I can easily visit that page and get the timestamp file (see
> below)?
>
> CCing Bennett, who was kind to host that mirror
>
>> , and it does not appear to be marked as
>> broken on the status page at
>
>>     http://neuro.debian.netmirrors_status.html?highlight=mirrors
>
>> As of Mon, 16 Jan, 2017, the status page said
>
>>     us-tn USA-TN (Vanderbilt) 5 hours 40 minutes OK
>
>> If I'm the only one who can't get updates from it, I'll stop bothering
>> you, but if this is a more general failure, perhaps it should be
>> removed as an option and something sent to the ND mailing list
>> alerting people to its non-functioning state?
>
>> Sorry for the noise,  -- bennet
>
>
> hm, regular wget works ok:
>
> $> wget -q -S -O- http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian/.timestamp
>   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:02:34 GMT
>   Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
>   Last-Modified: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:10:01 GMT
>   ETag: "b-5462f3211fc40"
>   Accept-Ranges: bytes
>   Content-Length: 11
>   Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
>   Connection: Keep-Alive
> 1484543401
>
>
> but if added to apt sources -- apt-get update just hangs  for a while and
> eventually "Ign"ores that site:
>
> Ign:51 http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian data InRelease
> Ign:52 http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian sid InRelease
>
>
> Bennett, does mirror work (as if added to apt sources) you yourself at
> least? ;)  My IP ATM was 129.170.31.179  if you could check logs for
> anything abnormal
>
>
> --
> Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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