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On 01/03/2010 20:39, chethcoat AT oplink wrote:

> First, using my browser to get to http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst, I get
> a "not found on this server" error.  I think this file might be
> elsewhere.

  Absolutely not, no way.  You have a very serious network problem.  Probably
a bad proxy server.  Either that or you are hacked/virused and something is
redirecting your DNS.  You should see this in wget:

> $ wget -S http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
> --2010-03-01 21:08:10--  http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
> Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131
> Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
>   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:50:13 GMT
>   Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
>   Last-Modified: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:13:08 GMT
>   ETag: "18e220c-198d-a14f900"
>   Accept-Ranges: bytes
>   Content-Length: 6541
>   Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
>   Connection: Keep-Alive
>   Content-Type: text/plain
> Length: 6541 (6.4K) [text/plain]
> Saving to: `mirrors.lst'
> 
> 100%[======================================>] 6,541       17.4K/s   in 0.4s
> 
> 2010-03-01 21:08:12 (17.4 KB/s) - `mirrors.lst' saved [6541/6541]

... and this in your browser:

> ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cygwin/;ftp.iitm.ac.in;Asia;India
> http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cygwin/;ftp.iitm.ac.in;Asia;India
> ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/cygwin/;ftp.iij.ad.jp;Asia;Japan
> ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/cygwin/;ftp.jaist.ac.jp;Asia;Japan
> ftp://ring.aist.go.jp/archives/pc/gnu-win32/;ring.aist.go.jp;Asia;Japan
> http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/cygwin/;ftp.iij.ad.jp;Asia;Japan
> http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/cygwin/;ftp.jaist.ac.jp;Asia;Japan
> ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/cygwin/;ftp.kaist.ac.kr;Asia;Korea
> ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/cygwin/;mirror.averse.net;Asia;Singapore
> http://mirror.averse.net/cygwin/;mirror.averse.net;Asia;Singapore
> ftp://ftp.ntu.edu.tw/cygwin/;ftp.ntu.edu.tw;Asia;Taiwan
> ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/cygwin/;mirror.internode.on.net;Australia;Australia
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sourceware/cygwin/;mirror.aarnet.edu.au;Australia;Australia
> http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/cygwin/;mirror.internode.on.net;Australia;Australia
> http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/cygwin.com/;mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca;Canada;Alberta
> ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cygwin/;mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca;Canada;Ontario
> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cygwin/;mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca;Canada;Ontario
> ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/cygwin/;ftp.univie.ac.at;Europe;Austria
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/cygwin/;gd.tuwien.ac.at;Europe;Austria

  [ ... many more snipped ... ]

    cheers,
      DaveK


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