When I try to install atom I receive connection refused:
sudo snap install atom
error: cannot install "atom": Get
https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/details/atom?channel=stable&fields=anon_download_url%2Carchitecture%2Cchannel%2Cdownload_sha3_384%2Csummary%2Cdescription%2Cdeltas%2Cbinary_filesize%2Cdownload_url%2Cepoch%2Cicon_url%2Clast_updated%2Cpackage_name%2Cprices%2Cpublisher%2Cratings_average%2Crevision%2Cscreenshot_urls%2Csnap_id%2Csupport_url%2Ccontact%2Ctitle%2Ccontent%2Cversion%2Corigin%2Cdeveloper_id%2Cprivate%2Cconfinement%2Cchannel_maps_list:
dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on [::1]:53: read udp
[::1]:55918->[::1]:53: read: connection refused
This is my snap version:
snap version
snap 2.27.6
snapd 2.27.6
series 16
ubuntu 16.04
kernel 4.10.0-35-generic
nsg
September 24, 2017, 10:25am
2
Looks like your computer can’t resolve api.snapcraft.io for some reason. Can you for example browse to http://api.snapcraft.io/ ? What about curl -v http://api.snapcraft.io? or dig api.snapcraft.io?
▶ curl -v http://api.snapcraft.io
* Rebuilt URL to: http://api.snapcraft.io/
* Trying 91.189.92.20...
* Connected to api.snapcraft.io (91.189.92.20) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: api.snapcraft.io
> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: gunicorn/19.7.1
< Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:36:42 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 49
< X-VCS-Revision: f41dc3f
< X-Request-Id: b96cc206-a785-4a90-a54a-2dc4fe6015fd
<
snapdevicegw service - Copyright 2017 Canonical.
* Connection #0 to host api.snapcraft.io left intact
▶ dig api.snapcraft.io
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> api.snapcraft.io
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35691
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;api.snapcraft.io. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
api.snapcraft.io. 316 IN A 91.189.92.20
api.snapcraft.io. 316 IN A 91.189.92.19
;; Query time: 70 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 24 12:37:12 CEST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 77
traceroute api.snapcraft.io
traceroute to api.snapcraft.io (91.189.92.19), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.178.1 (192.168.178.1) 7.493 ms 7.407 ms 7.359 ms
2 192.0.0.1 (192.0.0.1) 39.153 ms 40.125 ms 40.597 ms
3 ae0.r3.muc7.m-online.net (212.18.6.87) 42.063 ms 42.663 ms 44.141 ms
4 ae52.bar1.Munich1.Level3.net (62.140.24.49) 45.115 ms 46.343 ms 48.563 ms
5 ae-124-3510.edge5.london1.Level3.net (4.69.166.37) 64.492 ms 65.450 ms 68.552 ms
6 SOURCE-MANA.edge5.London1.Level3.net (212.187.138.82) 68.717 ms 54.462 ms 55.499 ms
7 ninjask.canonical.com (91.189.93.24) 59.798 ms 57.637 ms 59.332 ms
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nsg
September 24, 2017, 10:51am
4
Looks fine to me, and I tried to install atom inside a 16.04 container and it worked perfectly for me. Maybe snapd uses their own DNS servers? That would be weird… or maybe it’s just a bad error message.
I restarted the PC and now it works
well, let’s say was a temporary error