If there isn't a good way to be able to gracefully work from this scenario (in the past I think the timeouts were just a lot lower), then it would be preferable to support an optional preseed template to tell it to not try to verify any sources written to sources.list.
>From a machine on the same network as this occurs: $ tracepath archive.ubuntu.com -n 1: 10.9.160.254 0.153ms pmtu 1500 1: 10.9.160.1 0.736ms 2: 10.9.29.2 0.601ms 3: 10.254.251.246 asymm 2 0.738ms 4: no reply 5: no reply 6: no reply 7: no reply 8: no reply 9: no reply 10: no reply 11: no reply 12: no reply 13: no reply 14: no reply 15: no reply 16: no reply 17: no reply 18: no reply 19: no reply 20: no reply 21: no reply 22: no reply 23: no reply 24: no reply 25: no reply 26: no reply 27: no reply 28: no reply 29: no reply 30: no reply 31: no reply Too many hops: pmtu 1500 Resume: pmtu 1500 $ ping archive.ubuntu.com PING archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.88.30) 56(84) bytes of data. --- archive.ubuntu.com ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 5009ms $ /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.9.160.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.9.160.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 -- System takes forever trying to contact uncontactable sources during install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556831 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs