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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