On Monday 19 February 2018 07:44:04 Brian wrote: > On Sun 18 Feb 2018 at 20:21:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 18 February 2018 18:47:58 Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 18 Feb 2018 at 17:51:50 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Sunday 18 February 2018 17:19:48 Roger Price wrote: > > > > > > [Snipped] > > > > > > > > It looks as if the network setup in the EeePC is correct, but > > > > > wget fails. Any suggestion would be very welcome, Roger > > > > > > > > Check the list, I think wget was mentioned as a problem child > > > > child within the last 2 or 3 weeks. Is the machine fully > > > > uptodate? > > > > > > What significance does "fully uptodate" have when using the > > > installer? > > > > The install media may be dated, so if it will boot at all, the first > > thing should be to update it and see if wget is replaced and now > > works. > > Sounds reasonable until one realises the installer uses a busybox > version of wget. And busybox hasn't changed during the lifetime of > 9.x.x.
while wget (and curl) has been updated, apparently trying to fix a bug or attack vector, several times in the last 6 weeks or so. So this would appear to be a busybox problem from my point of view? Or possibly a broken link as I get that same pair of errors regardless of the machine on my home net that I initiate this query from: wget -S --spider https://wiki.debian.org And this is the response I get from here in WV,USA: gene@coyote:~/Documents$ wget -S --spider https://wiki.debian.org Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists. --2018-02-19 09:39:51-- https://wiki.debian.org/ Resolving wiki.debian.org (wiki.debian.org)... 82.195.75.112, 2001:41b8:202:deb:6564:a62:52c3:4b70 Connecting to wiki.debian.org (wiki.debian.org)|82.195.75.112|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:39:42 GMT Server: Apache X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: sameorigin Referrer-Policy: no-referrer X-Xss-Protection: 1 Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000 Public-Key-Pins: pin-sha256="yPqY/77C2aLVJIEAYtuMrFy+cX6g4CatH03gcBQbxpo="; pin-sha256="TzmD7DK6d5d7RU66/XTJtlENSfv+i0P7x2Xmpl8uFrY="; max-age=5184000 Content-Length: 166 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html Remote file does not exist -- broken link!!! Found 1 broken link. https://wiki.debian.org/ Converted 0 files in 0 seconds. So either wget has been banned, or the file does not exist. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>