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Subject: RE: fyi - mirror prob
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:17:18 +0100
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On 10 July 2007 11:07, René Berber wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> On 10 July 2007 09:25, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> 
>>> seems like the grep package on http://mirrors.kernel.org appears corrupt
>>> (too short). Seems fine on another mirror.
>> 
>>   Seems fine on kernel.org to me: maybe you have local firewall / http
>> proxy issues? 
> 
> One problem I've seen was that the "mirrors" (at kernel.org) are not
> synchronized btw. themselves.  Looking at your wget, you get 2 addresses (in
> random order), the result depends on which one is used.

  For me, .31 works fine and .7 gives me a 404 error, because it only has the older version 2.5.1a-3.

  Man, that could really screw with setup.exe's head if it got setup.ini from one mirror and then tried downloading from the other!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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