"Software update server could not be contacted"

Does this happen often? Im trying to restore to do a clean JB and I keep getting this error. It says to try again later but I've been trying for an hour. I hope they aren't killing 4.0.1 right now because that would suck.

 

Dangit, stuff like this always happens to me when I need to do things.

 

Nope, nothing yet


--- phobos.apple.com.akadns.net ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

 

Well, apparently there wasn't anything wrong with Apple's servers. After doing a bit of googling it turns out that I had added an entry into my hosts file for a previous jailbreak and this was preventing itunes from communicating with the mother-ship.

All is well now.

 

go to /etc/hosts on Mac or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows and make sure you didn't add any entry there that would prevent itunes from connecting to apple.

I had added one before that would make itunes connect to Saurik's server instead of apple. I just deleted that entry, restarted networking and was able to update normally.

Sorry I didn't answer this before. I guess I missed it.

Oh. And I did say how I solved it before.. "I had added an entry into my hosts file for a previous jailbreak and this was preventing itunes from communicating with the mother-ship. "
(The obvious solution is removing the offending entry)