Cannot connect to repo.peppermintos.com

[Drew Ruggles]

When I try to run the Peppermint Update for a few days now, I get the following error:

Error: http://repo.peppermintos.com/packages peppermint InRelease
Could not connect to repo.peppermintos.com:80 (68.233.46.81), connection timed out
Error: python-apt gave us FetchFailedExeption() This isn't a proper error as it's empty

Screenshot of error, attached.

It will eventually skip the peppermintos packages and still update the other packages.

Note that pinging repo.peppermintos.com times out.

Drew

(edited for clarity)

[Anonymous]

Hi Drew, welcome to Planet Peppermint.

Yes the company we host our server with, had a planned relocation of their Data centre over the weekend. It was expected last 12 to 14hrs. But there appears to be a hangover from this change which is DNS propagation time taking effect: https://uk.godaddy.com/help/what-factors-affect-dns-propagation-time-1746

We have notified our provider and they have informed us they encountered unusual internal loops with some IP functioning as they suppose to and other failing. Which explains the mixed results of different users globally.

I was able to update my system with updates yesterday, (see attached screenshot) even today it is registering a "time out" when connecting to the server. Then connecting and completing variable updates. Fingers crossed.

[Drew Ruggles]

Thank you @cavy!

I'll assume the DNS will catch up, eventually...

Drew

[Anonymous]

You are welcome, and we certainly hope so.

[rayzer]

speaking of repos, i dont have this one on my install since the upgrade to bookworm. is it a new thing i need to add?

[Anonymous]

That is Bullseye /etc/apt/sources.list

Bookworm have changed things from bookworm main contrib non-free to bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware , below is my sources.list from my RC3 test install.

# This system was installed using PeppermintOS removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were removed at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

# Main Repo - main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# Security Repo - main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free

# Updates Repo - main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main

# Proposed Updates Repo - main contrib non-free
#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

# bookworm-backports, previously on backports.debian.org
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free

[Drew Ruggles]

Same error this morning. That's a slow DNS update!

Drew

[David V Duccini]

I don't think this is a DNS problem at this point -- I would move DNS to CloudFlare and use their proxy service to round-robin / load balance it.

[Drew Ruggles]

David,

It finally updated today (Thu, 29-Jun-2023).

Drew

[generalmooseance]

HI there. Just noting the same issue about where repo.peppermintos.com couldnt be reached. Seemed yesterday it was fixed. Tried it again this morning. First time it was down again and then a little while later it went through ok. Not sure if this is an intermittant issue.