On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:08, Roger Searle wrote: > Connecting to download.microsoft.com|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: Connection > timed out. > Retrying. > > --16:05:28-- > http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/1/3/d13cd456-f0cf-4fb2-a17f-20afc7 >9f8a51/DCOM98.EXE (try: 5) => `/home/roger/.ies4linux/downloads/DCOM98.EXE' > Connecting to |1.0.0.0|:80... Looks to me as if your dns name server is wonky. download.microsoft.com does not have the address 1.0.0.0
> No idea why/where I'm going wrong - anyone got any suggestions? Works ok here, vis:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /data $ wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/1/3/d13cd456-f0cf-4fb2-a17f-20afc79f8a51/DCOM98.EXE --16:18:10-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/1/3/d13cd456-f0cf-4fb2-a17f-20afc79f8a51/DCOM98.EXE => `DCOM98.EXE' Resolving download.microsoft.com... 203.167.223.236, 203.167.223.237 Connecting to download.microsoft.com|203.167.223.236|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,229,056 (1.2M) [application/octet-stream] 23% [===========> ] 292,265 89.09K/s ETA 00:10 I don't want the thing, so I stopped it, to avoid wasting bytes. -- CS
