That would be great! I just got a new PC. I'm not sure about its networking abilities...yet. (I can't ping www.ibm.com, but the IP address comes back. I think this means I've connected to a good DNS server, but the node (www.ibm.com) has the ping port blocked. Or that we have some of the ping ports blocked.)
Anyway wget www.ibm.com did return an index.html. It would be interesting to see your script to determine how (or if) I need to have my Novell userid/password for my SLES maintenance contract. Also, if this process works on Windows, can't the same process work for zLinux? Eventually, I would rather build a maintenance server there and keep microslop out of the picture. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/23/2005 2:11 PM >>> I could send you my windows wget.bat script I've used to mirror Suse's S390 SLES8 and SLES9 sites; haven't tried it with new Novell site but it sounds like just a URL change according to Mark's post. You'd have to install free GnuWin32 wget on a PC -------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: setting up a patch server I don't know what parts of that would be correct. My impression is that wget does the same thing, security wise, as your browser. That is, it gets certificates and does it's automagical thing that allows you to connect to the outside world. So, my impression (and I haven't the foggest idea what I'm talking about on this one), is: Your browser connected to an agent, which exchanges certificates. If valid, then translates your private IP address to a public IP address to go out to the public Internet. This function seems to be called NAT or NATTed. >From a discussion a couple years ago, wget will also do the same functions as a browser. But I didn't spend much time trying to get it to work. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
