Quoting Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 30/08/06 16:08, Roger Searle wrote: > > I'm getting a series of failed attempts to download files with wget > (on > > the 5th try now): > > > Connecting to download.microsoft.com|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: > Connection > Here's the hint: ^^^^^^^ > > I suspect that either your resolver is broken or your http_proxy > environment setting (if you use one) is mis-set. > > What's the output of > > host download.microsoft.com
nine:/home/roger/Desktop/ies4linux-2.0.1 # host download.microsoft.com download.microsoft.com is an alias for main.dl.ms.akadns.net. main.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for intl.dl.ms.akadns.net. intl.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for dl.ms.d4p.net. dl.ms.d4p.net is an alias for dl.ms.georedirector.akadns.net. dl.ms.georedirector.akadns.net is an alias for a767.ms.akamai.net. a767.ms.akamai.net has address 203.109.252.168 a767.ms.akamai.net has address 203.109.252.160 ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached nine:/home/roger/Desktop/ies4linux-2.0.1 # man host Reformatting host(1), please wait... HOST(1) BIND9 HOST(1) nine:/home/roger/Desktop/ies4linux-2.0.1 # host download.microsoft.com download.microsoft.com is an alias for main.dl.ms.akadns.net. main.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for intl.dl.ms.akadns.net. intl.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for dl.ms.d4p.net. dl.ms.d4p.net is an alias for dl.ms.georedirector.akadns.net. dl.ms.georedirector.akadns.net is an alias for a767.ms.akamai.net. a767.ms.akamai.net has address 203.109.252.160 a767.ms.akamai.net has address 203.109.252.168 ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > > and > > echo $http_proxy nine:/home/roger/Desktop/ies4linux-2.0.1 # echo $http_proxy nine:/home/roger/Desktop/ies4linux-2.0.1 # (no output) I'll admit to not knowing what to do here - I can report that everything else "appears" to be fine on the network and internet here - apart from very slow email service from ihug for most of the day... > > Cheers, > Roy. >
