Bro, Why Is My KDE Neon Trying to Download Packages from 192.168.49.1??

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Hey guys, I’m kinda new to Linux, been playing around with KDE Neon (based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble). I tried to update and install some packages using apt, but suddenly I got a bunch of errors.

Almost every package failed to download and I kept seeing something like:

Could not connect to 192.168.49.1:8000 (connection timed out)

At first I thought the internet was just slow or the repo was down. But bro… 192.168.49.1 is a local IP? Why is my system trying to fetch stuff from there??

Packages like Firefox, Plasma Desktop, Dolphin, even some basic libraries, all failed. Apt kept saying “package not yet available” or some timeout error.

I have no idea what caused this. Maybe some proxy setting? Or some app messing with the network? I recently played around with some dev tools, maybe that’s the culprit.

If anyone knows what’s going on or how to fix this, I’d really appreciate the help.

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It’s a wild guess: it looks like your home router has some blocking policy, this is done via a transparent DNS where all the filtered/blocked query are routed to the internal blocking screen, if you know the actual destination URL you can try and use it in your browser to see what happens.

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