Apple software update doesn't connect to server

Hello,
When I try to do a software update on my iMac, it say " update software doesn't manage to locate the " update router"", more or less because I just translate it from french.
I don't know if there is a relation, but I connect my computeur on internet with a stellite provider. But I don't think, because when I was on dial up connection, I had the same probleme.
Anyone can help?

No, I didn't try creating a new user, in part because once before doing that only made things more complicated and didn't solve any problems.
Software Update simply started working again. No idea why.
However, even after several days, Safari is still reporting that it cannot connect to the server for any URL put in. I've restarted Safari, reset Safari, manually emptied all caches, removed cookies. All very odd!
Firefox is working just fine.

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