Ubuntu servers get Err:1 Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.161 80]

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Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 wordpress all 4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1
Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.161 80]

When I do a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade or install an application like Wordpress

The server fails. I can ping it.

user@user-virtual-machine ~ $ hostnamectl
Static hostname: user-virtual-machine
Icon name: computer-vm
Chassis: vm
Machine ID: bbada5cfcc9a4a80ac8dc5ce6d9f53aa
Boot ID: 66ea8ed1c4644056903b9902c65dd168
Virtualization: vmware
Operating System: Linux Mint 18.3
Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-38-generic
Architecture: x86-64
user@user-virtual-machine ~ $

user@user-virtual-machine ~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Release: 18.3
Codename: sylvia
user@user-virtual-machine ~ $

I have Ubuntu servers that do the same thing with that server.

@michael-mckenney,

Which command are you running here?
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade or sudo apt-get install

What package are you trying is this Wordpress or some other server like nginx?

This will help me to troubleshoot!

I did saw it first with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04.4. Everything from 16.04.3 to 16.04.4 was fine. It seems to be once you get to 16.04.4 or the latest Mint distro, it fails. I checked the sources.list file. I can ping those servers that are failed. I can do NSLookup to them. I saw security.ubuntu.com , archive.ubuntu.com were both failing.

us.archive.ubuntu.com also connection failed.

I did sudo apt-get update && sudo-apt-get dist-upgrade

I have two WAN connections at home. I will put a CentOS 7 server on the other one. Ubuntu is on one. I can try to do Word Press and Apache 2 on it. Might be fun having two separate web servers to play with.

I switched from the standard United States servers to a Canadian server out of Waterloo in Software Update. 4.4.0.-128 installed and everything finished.

I switched Mint too. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade worked and Word Press installed. Go figure the base US servers that install with Ubuntu and Mint are broken.