On Wed, 2026-01-28 at 01:50 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2026-01-28 00:47:23 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > I am retrying now, but I cannot reproduce the issue anymore. > > Just a calmer time, or has anything been fixed on fastly? > > On a bookworm machine, I got the following error several times > about one hour ago: > > Error retrieving bug reports from the server with the following error > message: > E: Failed to open TCP connection to bugs.debian.org:80 (Connection > refused - connect(2) for 209.87.16.81:80) > > And this still fails: > > joooj:~> curl http://bugs.debian.org > curl: (7) Failed to connect to bugs.debian.org port 80 after 270 ms: > Couldn't connect to server
That should work now. > But I'm wondering why apt-listbugs uses port 80. It appears that up to (and including) bookworm, TLS support was resisted due to concerns around OpenSSL licensing. From trixie onwards HTTPS is used. Regards, Adam
