On Fri, June 13, 2008 8:03 pm, Lan Barnes wrote: > > On Fri, June 13, 2008 7:36 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: >> Lan Barnes wrote: >>> Why does freedb work for a while, then refuse to? Is it me? >> [snip] >>> Invalid server response or error in parsing, exiting. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# >>> >>> >>> BTW, I ran it as root superstitiously in case root had some special >>> mojo. >>> Same results as a safer user. >>> >>> All this worked on the same machine a week ago. >> >> Why don't you want to believe the error message? An invalid server >> response could mean that the freedb server is not working properly. Do >> you have any way of testing the freedb server or seeing what the server >> response actually is? A brute force approach would be to use Wireshark >> to analyze the packet stream and see what the server is returning. >> >> Gus >> >> > > Well, trhat certainly is one interpretation of invalid server > response. I'll add that to wrong version of cdstatus; incorrectly > configured request; and it hates me. > > But if their server is foobar, what can I, as a data mooch, do? Write them > a plaintive email? >
Hmm ... flaky behavior from the router/firewall. Stand by ... -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
