You wrote:

> Hi Roel,
> 
> I switched a test box to use your sources.list extract and added locale
> nl_NL.UTF-8 and made it the default.  "apt-get update" works for me (see
> below).
> 
> I suggest you try using tshark or wireshark to see exactly what is happening
> when you get the 501 errors.
> 
> Also, FWIW, you can probably see English text in a Dutch system by prefixing a
> locale overide, e.g. "LC_ALL=C apt-get update".
> 
> --Mike
> 

Hi Mike,

Following the traffic I realized that there is an apt-caher-ng inbetween my
machines and all repositories, updating direct seems to have solved the problem.

Will need to investigate further, this way the cache is useless.

Thanks.

-- 
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