[Solved] Opkg can't connect to OpenWrt repo

loophole · November 1, 2019, 8:51pm

I just did a sysupgrade to a new image I built from the GitHub repo. I checked the distfeeds.conf file and all the repos start with http://downloads.openwrt.org. is the regular http port not open on the repos anymore? I can't connect to that url in my browser, either, but I can connect if I change it to https. I tried changing it to https in distfeeds.conf but the I get a SSL error.

jeff · November 1, 2019, 8:59pm

$ curl http://downloads.openwrt.org/ | head
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>OpenWrt Downloads</title>
<style type="text/css">
  html, body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    height: 100%;
  }

$ drill downloads.openwrt.org
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 28176
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; downloads.openwrt.org.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
downloads.openwrt.org.	40459	IN	CNAME	mirror-02.infra.openwrt.org.
mirror-02.infra.openwrt.org.	86	IN	A	176.9.48.73

loophole · November 1, 2019, 9:08pm

Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ramips/mt7620/packages/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ramips/mt7620/packages/Packages.gz

Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/base/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/base/Packages.gz

Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci/Packages.gz

Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages/Packages.gz

Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/routing/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/routing/Packages.gzCollected errors:
 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ramips/mt7620/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
 * opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.

 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/base/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
 * opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.

 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
 * opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.

 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
 * opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.

 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/routing/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
 * opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.

 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/telephony/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
 * opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.



Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/telephony/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/telephony/Packages.gz

jeff · November 1, 2019, 9:11pm

$ curl -o /dev/null http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ramips/mt7620/packages/Packages.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 71503  100 71503    0     0  68686      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 68686

Return status of 4 is a "network error" -- potentially you don't have connectivity or DNS.

loophole · November 1, 2019, 9:25pm

root@OpenWrt:~# curl -o /dev/null http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ramips/mt7620/packages/Packages.gz
-ash: curl: not found
root@OpenWrt:~# wget -O /dev/null http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ramips/mt7620/packages/Packages.gz
Downloading 'http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ramips/mt7620/packages/Packages.gz'
Connecting to 176.9.48.73:80  
Connection error: Connection failed
root@OpenWrt:~# nc downloads.openwrt.org 80
nc: can't connect to remote host (176.9.48.73): Connection refused
root@OpenWrt:~# nc downloads.openwrt.org 443
GET /
<html>
<head><title>400 The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</title></head><body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.10.3</center>
</body>
</html>
root@OpenWrt:~#

Apparently it's something to do with my network. I can't connect to port 80 on that site on any computer on my network, but other sites are working.

arch2 mt7620 $ telnet downloads.openwrt.org 80
Trying 176.9.48.73...
Connection failed: Connection refused
Trying 2a01:4f8:150:6449::2...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable
arch2 mt7620 $ telnet downloads.openwrt.org 443
Trying 176.9.48.73...                                                        Connected to downloads.openwrt.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
<html>
<head><title>400 The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</title></head><body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.10.3</center>
</body>
</html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
arch2 mt7620 $

Edit: actually, it looks like I can't connect to port 80 on any site. Maybe I messed up my firewall settings on my EdgeRouter.

mk24 · November 1, 2019, 9:36pm

Yes this seems to be a problem specific to @loophole network, http to downloads site still works for me.

loophole · November 1, 2019, 9:45pm

I can connect to sites on port 80 if I do it through SSH on my router. Every other device on the network can't connect to port 80 on internet hosts but they can connect to other ports on internet hosts.

Router:

loophole@ubnt# telnet downloads.openwrt.org 80
GET /
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.10.3</center>
</body>
</html>
Connection closed by foreign host
[edit]
loophole@ubnt#

I'm going to mark this solved since it's not related to OpenWrt.

loophole · November 1, 2019, 9:54pm

I just figured out what was wrong. I changed the cache-size on the squid webproxy service on my router this morning, and I just checked /var/log/messages. The squid server kept logging a message about the storage location not existing, then crashing and restarting every couple seconds. Once I changed the cache-size back to it's original value, HTTP started working again on all my devices.

tmomas · November 11, 2019, 9:54pm

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