From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNU Elpa not reachable (possibly OT) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 16:06:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874l915ek4.fsf@fastmail.fm> <875zt35a15.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="232480"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: Joost Kremers , help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 01 22:18:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gzpXl-000yIN-Na for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:18:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzpXk-0001Tn-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzpXM-0001Ne-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzpMG-0005mN-11 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:36799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzpMF-0005kP-PT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:06:15 -0500 Original-Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B25d4jVhz12F2; Fri, 1 Mar 2019 16:06:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 44B25d3lC3zcbR; Fri, 1 Mar 2019 16:06:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B25d3QKszcbQ; Fri, 1 Mar 2019 16:06:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <875zt35a15.fsf@fastmail.fm> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Received-From: 166.84.1.89 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119550 Archived-At: Same trouble here until I installed a tls package, then all of that trouble went away. On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Joost Kremers wrote: > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 02:27:50 > From: Joost Kremers > To: help-gnu-emacs > Subject: Re: GNU Elpa not reachable (possibly OT) > > Hi, > > just FYI, this issue appears to be resolved now. elpa.gnu.org is pingable > again (though it connects to the IPv4 address) and updating my packages in > Emacs also works again. > > Thanks to all who helped fix this. > > Best, > > Joost > > > > On Mon, Feb 18 2019, Joost Kremers wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The past few days I've been having trouble updating my packages, which turns > > out > > to be caused by Emacs not being able to reach . The > > problem isn't that the server is down (it isn't), but I'm not entirely sure > > what > > the problem is, so I thought I'd post here, in case anyone can help, even > > though > > it may not be an actual Emacs problem... > > > > Trying to refresh my package list results in the following error: > > > > error in process filter: Error retrieving: > > https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents (error http 400) > > > > Funny thing is, I can paste that URI in the address bar of my browser and > > the > > file loads just fine. > > > > Looking at this reddit page: > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/arnbhb/cant_reach_elpa_for_the_last_couple_of_days/ > > > > I tried the same thing as in one of the posts there, and indeed, `nslookp > > elpa.gnu.org` gives me: > > > > > > ``` > > Non-authoritative answer: > > Name: elpa.gnu.org > > Address: 209.51.188.89 > > Name: elpa.gnu.org > > Address: 2001:470:142:5::89 > > ``` > > > > and then `ping elpa.gnu.org` yields: > > > > ``` > > PING elpa.gnu.org(2001:470:142:5::89 (2001:470:142:5::89)) 56 data bytes > > From 2001:470:142::1 (2001:470:142::1) icmp_seq=1 Destination unreachable: > > Address unreachable > > ``` > > > > Several IPv6 test sites tell me my IPv6 connectivity is fine, except for > > one, > > which states that "Your router or firewall is filtering ICMPv6 messages sent > > to > > your computer." > > > > So I'm wondering if that may be the cause of the problem and if yes, what > > can I > > do about it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joost > > > --