On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Wierd. You've got just a plain 0.5.3 install???
Yes. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pts/5 /home/timshel/var]# > ftp_proxy="http://proxy.knoll.ln:8080"; wget > ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/unstable/Contents-i386.gz wget does not communicate with proxy servers the same way, APT has a habit of exposing non-RFC compliance because it used to be the only client in the world to do keep-alive and pipelining. The fact you get a Connection Timeout seems to confirm this suspicion. If you 'strace -o /tmp/apt -f -ff apt-get ...' and send me the files I can at least confirm for you that is the problem. You may also want to try the -o Acquire::HTTP::PipelineDepth=0 option. Jason
