(OT) Re: weird wget/curl problems

[David Bandel]

On 8/12/06, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 August 2006 12:57 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > 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

Sounds like an ISP who's using a web proxy.  I've seen times where
squid doesn't properly deal with small updates.  For example, doing
apt-get update will sometimes fail on the first try on very small
update files, but the bigger ones get through every time.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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