Upgrade 12.04.2

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I am trying to upgrade my 12.04.2 LTS to 14.04.3 LTS, which says is available.

I have changed my source.list file to reflect old-releases.ubuntu.com.

however everytime I try a sudo apt-get update, it gets stuck on [Connecting to old-releases.ubuntu.com (91.189.88.17)] and eventually errors out:

Err http://old-releases.ubuntu.com precise-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
  Unable to connect to old-releases.ubuntu.com:http:

If I do a host -v old-releases.ubuntu.com i get the following output: Trying "old-releases.ubuntu.com"

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16468
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;old-releases.ubuntu.com.       IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
old-releases.ubuntu.com. 123    IN      A       91.189.88.17

Received 57 bytes from 192.168.91.24#53 in 2 ms
Trying "old-releases.ubuntu.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53799
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;old-releases.ubuntu.com.       IN      AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ubuntu.com.             422     IN      SOA     ns1.canonical.com. hostmaster.canonical.com. 2017120602 10800 3600 604800 3600

Received 102 bytes from 192.168.91.24#53 in 1 ms
Trying "old-releases.ubuntu.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62127
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;old-releases.ubuntu.com.       IN      MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ubuntu.com.             422     IN      SOA     ns1.canonical.com. hostmaster.canonical.com. 2017120602 10800 3600 604800 3600

Received 102 bytes from 192.168.91.24#53 in 1 ms

I have also tried rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Its not a networking firewall or proxy issue, because i can follow the traffic out of my network. What am I missing?

Possible duplicate of How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? — dobey, Dec 06 '17 at 14:52
Does ping -c 4 old-releases.ubuntu.com return anything or timeout? — Terrance, Dec 06 '17 at 14:59
This question doesn't seem like a dup to me. Looks like OP is having issues with connecting to the old-releases.ubuntu.com which they have already made the changes as suggested in the dup question. — Terrance, Dec 06 '17 at 15:09
Yea I followed How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release, however I still am having the same issues. — AdminRyan, Dec 06 '17 at 15:19
Can you reach the host from other devices on the same network? What's the output of traceroute old-releases.ubuntu.com? I'm trying to find out if this an issue with the network configuration of your Ubuntu installation or with some other network component. — David Foerster, Dec 13 '17 at 01:17

Upgrade 12.04.2

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