[issue40188] Azure Pipelines jobs failing randomy with: Unable to connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org>:

Example:

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19375/checks?check_run_id=561058404
of https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19375

The Install Dependencies step failed with:

 sudo ./.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh && sudo apt-get install wamerican
(...)
Err:1 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 lcov all 1.13-3
  Could not connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (52.177.174.250), connection timed out [IP: 52.177.174.250 80]
Err:2 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 libgdbm-dev amd64 1.14.1-6
  Unable to connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 52.177.174.250 80]
(..)
Err:15 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 uuid-dev amd64 2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.6
  Unable to connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 52.177.174.250 80]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libsqlite3-dev amd64 3.22.0-1ubuntu0.3 [632 kB]
Fetched 632 kB in 1min 1s (10.5 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lcov/lcov_1.13-3_all.deb  Could not connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (52.177.174.250), connection timed out [IP: 52.177.174.250 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gdbm/libgdbm-dev_1.14.1-6_amd64.deb  Unable to connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 52.177.174.250 80]
(...)
E: Failed to fetch http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/uuid-dev_2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb  Unable to connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 52.177.174.250 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
##[error]Process completed with exit code 100.

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components: Tests
messages: 365798
nosy: steve.dower, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Azure Pipelines jobs failing randomy with: Unable to connect to azure.archive.ubuntu.com
versions: Python 3.9

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