[tex-live] Unable to download the remote TL database

[Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda]

Hi Justin,

Indeed, UnB and USP had some connectivity issues, so I was out of 
Brazilian hosts to try. :) I did the tests again with the Cambridge node 
and everything went as expected. Thanks for the pointer. :)

All the best,

Paulo

Em 08-11-2015 21:21, Justin C. Walker escreveu:
>
> On Nov 8, 2015, at 14:33 , Karl Berry wrote:
>
>> Hi Paulo,
>>
>>     Not all the time, but most of it:
>>
>> Has anything changed with the network on your end?
>> That's the first thing that comes to mind.
>>
>>     http://repositorios.cpai.unb.br/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
>>
>> I can't visit that url in a browser.  I suspect something is wrong on
>> that host.  I suggest specifying a different mirror (not www.ctan.org)
>> explicitly.
>
> FWIW, I can't get to this site, or to the DNS servers that "whois" claims serves the "unb.br" domain.  Looks like an outage (or other problem) in or near Brasilia.
>
> HTH
>
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