weird wget/curl problems

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:03:47PM -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> > Bizaare. The "-1" value is invalid for the "Expires" attribute, and
> > lots of browsers ignore it. That might not be the issue here. Did
> > cron jobs work in the past? If so, what's changed? My only other
> > suggestions would be that something changed at freedns or you are
> > missing something in your environment when you run the job from
> > cron that is present when you run it manually.
> 
> The cronjob worked fine for over 6 months, then suddenly started 
> exhibiting this problem last month.  I can't think of anything that has 
> changed.  I've checked on the freedns website, and there's nothing there 
> that would suggest why this is suddenly failing, plus there are no other 
> reports on their forums of anyone else having this problem.
> 
> One thing that I've noticed is that I was wrong about it working when 
> running the script manually.  It seems to fail there too the first time, 
> and the works the 2nd.

I suggest breaking out tcpdump to see what's different between the first 
and second attempts.

Kurt