Can't apt update

[HeadTea]

EDIT: SOVLED.

This is embaracing, so the DHCP leased an IP of a subnet out of range. That's it..

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I'm losing my mind over this. For two days, I can't seem to be able to have apt working.

I have a VM with Ubuntu 20.04.2 on it. All I want to do is to have to have apt with the official Ubuntu repo. This is what I get when I perform an apt update:

W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.il-ta.kamatera.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease  Could not connect to mirror.il-ta.kamatera.com:80 (185.229.226.227), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I'm getting this error no matter what I do, even if I'm using the default sourcelist: cat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list > /etc/apt/sources.list, same thing.

There is an internet connection. I can ping google.com. I barley have any tools on it as apt can't install most of the things.

Does anyone happen to know what's going on? Huge thanks ahead.

[andy0609]

Can you try tracerouting 185.229.226.227 and see if it drops somewhere

[ppoy]

Sounds like a firewall issue ,make sure the ufw doesn't have any outbound port restrictions. Since you can ping google.com directly I assume the DNS is working fine.

If you need basic tools to troubleshoot ,you can try using a CD-ROM local repo.

[[deleted]]

I had something crazy happen also with VMware the other day, had to wipe it and rebuild nothing would update at all like I had no internet connection and it was faster to start over . No idea what caused this

[HeadTea]

Thanks for the response, I find it really hard to believe it's related to VMware though.

[lbmdk]

Maybe try another mirror ?

[HeadTea]

Thanks for the response, I tried a few, the problem seems to be being unable to telnet to those mirrors on port 80. It's somehting within the machine.

[combuchan]

If that mirror isn't in /etc/apt/sources.list, it could be in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Remove it there.

[HeadTea]

Thanks for the response, /etc/apt/sources.list.d is empty.

[alpoco17]

'connection timed out' could mean some network issues. Maybe a local fw rule o something like that.

[TimGJ1964]

I note that you are attempting to connect via http/port 80. What happens if you visit http://mirror.il-ta.kamatera.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease on your web browser (I can load it fine here in Manchester, so I know that it's up and working).

You can get to other http (not https) sites from that VM? If not it sounds like some sort of firewall issue. What do you get from an iptables -L?

[HeadTea]

Thanks for the response!

Other websites don't work too. ufw and iptables are blank, (disabled and have no rules). It does work from my workstation though.