From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GNU Elpa not reachable (possibly OT)
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:27:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zt35a15.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874l915ek4.fsf@fastmail.fm>
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
> <https://elpa.gnu.org>. 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
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-01 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-18 14:58 GNU Elpa not reachable (possibly OT) Joost Kremers
2019-02-18 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-18 21:10 ` Joost Kremers
2019-02-19 0:17 ` Bob Proulx
2019-02-19 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-19 5:07 ` Bob Proulx
2019-02-19 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-19 16:59 ` Joost Kremers
2019-02-19 17:05 ` Bob Proulx
2019-02-19 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-20 9:10 ` Joost Kremers
2019-02-18 17:08 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-18 18:19 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-19 17:03 ` Joost Kremers
2019-02-19 19:08 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-20 9:42 ` Joost Kremers
2019-02-20 10:15 ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-01 7:27 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2019-03-01 10:02 ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-01 21:06 ` Jude DaShiell
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