I am running Ubuntu focal as a WSL2 installation on Windows 10.
It appears that my Ubuntu installation is unable to download any files. I have illustrated it with a simple wget command, but the situation is blocking sudo apt update and any other system updates.
ping is returning expected results.
The host Windows system is working as expected, and is able to display the file that wget couldn't fetch. This can be seen in the image below
Here is a sample session:
$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
$ uname -r
5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2
$ wget
--2021-10-02 20:30:05--
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.111.133, 185.199.110.133, 185.199.109.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.111.133|:443... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.110.133|:443... ^C
$ ping raw.githubusercontent.com
PING raw.githubusercontent.com (185.199.111.133) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cdn-185-199-111-133.github.com (185.199.111.133): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=21.0 ms
64 bytes from cdn-185-199-111-133.github.com (185.199.111.133): icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=22.8 ms
64 bytes from cdn-185-199-111-133.github.com (185.199.111.133): icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=22.2 ms
64 bytes from cdn-185-199-111-133.github.com (185.199.111.133): icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=22.1 ms
^C
--- raw.githubusercontent.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.047/22.023/22.798/0.627 ms1 Answer
The issue was that the Windows anti-virus software firewall had set the local network as untrusted.
