[tex-live] Cannot contact mirror.ctan.org

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/9/21 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> Hi Denis,
>
> On Di, 21 Sep 2010, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
>> > Does this persist?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Bad.
>
>> Well, I didn't explicitly open it and it used to be okay by the past,
>> for instance with TL 2009! I do not have any trouble to browse the
>> internet. BTW, my boxes are Mandriva 2010.1 Linux.
>
> Umpf.
>
>> 3. If I don't manually specify a mirror but completely disable my
>> firewall, the problem in item 1 disappear but I don't like to do so,
>> even for few minutes when I update the TL.
>
> That is strange. So what we basically do is:
>        wget http://mirror.ctan.org
> and analyze the output searching for "Location: ...".
>
> If you do that on the command line, what do you get there?
>
> I am really surprised what is configured in that firewall that wget is forbidden?
>
Try --random-wait?

> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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