On Sat, 05 Nov 2022, onefang wrote:

> On 2022-11-05 11:26:00, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
> > Hi Riccardo,
> >
> > Riccardo Mottola via Dng <dng@???> writes:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > since yesterday, I am unable to get package updates, eg apt-get update
> > > on http://deb.devuan.org but it timeouts.
> >
> > Not experiencing that here. If it was an issue with deb.devuan.org, I
> > assume the problem has gone away. If you're still seeing it, the cause
> > is probably elsewhere.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
>
> deb.devuan.org is a DNS round robin, it'll resolve to a bunch of our
> package mirrors, and apt gets to use one of them at any given time. So
> the one you where getting at that specific time might have been having
> issues. So try again later.

Also adding an "Acquire::Retries" policy of "5" to apt.conf.d may help:

```
echo "Acquire::Retries \"5\";" | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/avoid-timeouts
```

see
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5048

ciao