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Using apt or yum Fails with Error: "503 Service Unavailable" or "FAILED: Trying other mirror"

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later 

Linux x86-64 - Ubuntu and CentOS

 

Symptoms:

Contacting official repositories for Ubuntu or CentOS intances fails: 

  • Unable to refresh the Ubuntu repositories in the ubuntu instance with “apt-get update”:
# apt-get update 
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. 
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages  503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.91.82 80] 
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.91.82 80] 
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en.xz  503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.91.82 80] 
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/multiverse/cnf/Commands-amd64.xz  503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.91.82 80] 
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-updates/main/cnf/Commands-amd64  503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.91.81 80] 

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