weird wget/curl problems

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

OK, turns out I wasn't crazy, and its not me.  My ISP seems to be causing 
this mess:
http://freedns.afraid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3467

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