On 02/08/19 11:59, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> This is the second time that I've wanted to run an upgrade on my RPi at
> about this time, around 18:00-19:00 on Friday: the previous failure was a
> week ago.
>
> Have any of you seen this previously?
>
> Attempts to retrieve .deb files only result in multiple failures (14) of
> in 'apt-get upgrade' this time as it tried to fetch nine .deb files.
>
> Each of these gets an HTTP 302 response (this is a redirect) and all are
> associated with IP 93.93.128.193 port 80 which curl can't access and
> 'host' can't resolve, returning error 3(NXDOMAIN). According to 'whois'
> this IP is part of the Mythic Beasts Primary Address block.
>
> It seems that Mythic Beasts are hosting the Raspbian package collection -
> just not very well seeing that their servers are falling over.
>
>

this is probably due to some last-minute security patches to prevent a
re-direct from allowing an MItM attack.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/debian_package_manager_flaws/


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