Checking my logs, I see two failures with subsequent retries which were successful after 10 minutes and 13 minutes respectively. That's far better than my previous bespoke script! Mon 07/06/2009 0:27:45.64 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 0:27:45.66 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 0:27:54.54 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 0:27:54.57 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 0:30:56.76 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 1:47:54.83 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 1:47:54.85 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 1:48:03.60 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 1:48:03.76 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 1:51:05.94 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 3:00:50.61 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 3:00:50.63 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 3:01:29.19 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 3:01:29.22 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 3:04:32.49 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 4:13:16.33 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 4:13:16.34 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 4:13:25.80 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 4:13:25.93 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 4:16:28.49 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 5:22:18.53 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 5:22:18.55 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 5:22:18.78 An error occurred and the attempt was abandoned. Mon 07/06/2009 5:25:19.00 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 5:25:19.02 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 5:25:19.25 An error occurred and the attempt was abandoned. Mon 07/06/2009 5:32:28.08 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 5:32:28.09 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 5:32:43.48 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 5:32:43.50 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 5:35:46.60 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 6:42:59.42 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 6:42:59.42 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 6:43:14.95 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 6:43:14.96 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 6:46:17.40 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 6:55:10.76 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 6:55:10.78 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 6:55:11.01 An error occurred and the attempt was abandoned. Mon 07/06/2009 6:58:11.47 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 6:58:11.49 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 6:58:11.77 An error occurred and the attempt was abandoned. Mon 07/06/2009 7:08:30.01 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 7:08:30.02 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 7:08:39.62 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 7:08:39.66 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 7:11:42.39 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 8:29:28.75 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 8:29:28.77 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 8:29:42.86 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 8:29:42.87 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 8:32:44.83 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 9:43:35.51 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 9:43:35.53 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 9:43:47.52 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 9:43:47.74 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 9:46:51.98 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 11:11:52.52 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/06/2009 11:11:52.54 Calling cURL to fetch the rulebase Mon 07/06/2009 11:12:03.97 Calling snf2check to see if the download is valid Mon 07/06/2009 11:12:03.99 New rulebase is in effect. Mon 07/06/2009 11:15:08.12 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Checking further back shows that I get the "An error has occurred" message a few times a day and hadn't noticed. Checking my ping times and traceroutes show that I have no packet loss but there is random extra lag of zero to 85ms on AboveNet, which sits between my provider and RackSpace where the updates server is. Andrew.
________________________________ From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:snif...@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Richard Stupek Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 11:16 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] curl couldn't connect to host I just started seeing this error for the getrulebase.cmd script. Is there an issue going on?
