David Gillies wrote:
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> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour?
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> perhaps you've got the http_proxy environment variable set to something
> invalid?
Sorry, that doesn't explain the behaviour.
doesn't work does work
wget <server.name> wget <ip address>
telnet <server.name> telnet <ip address>
I don't believe that telnet honours the http_proxy variable :-).
Erik
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