Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 15:05:20 +0100 From: "Gary J. Hayers" <gary@hayers.org> To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, umq@ueo.co.jp Subject: Re: security/libgcrypt checksum mismatch Message-ID: <518E5020.2060305@hayers.org> In-Reply-To: <20130511135946.GE94348@titania.njm.me.uk> References: <201305111044.r4BAiMuH059762@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20130511110107.GB94348@titania.njm.me.uk> <518E2913.5040402@hayers.org> <20130511115228.GC94348@titania.njm.me.uk> <20130511135946.GE94348@titania.njm.me.uk>
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I'm on a brit ISP too, Virgin Media, not sure if they do something simular, I wonder if it is fetch(1) that is doing it, when manually downloading distfiles I use wget which shows no symptoms for downloading mismatch files... On 11/05/2013 14:59, N.J. Mann wrote: > In message <20130511115228.GC94348@titania.njm.me.uk>, > I now know why I get HTML files when trying to fetch these distfiles. > The common factor is that they all use HTTP rather FTP for fetching. > For HTTP fetches my ISP (British Telecom, aka BT) will display a > "helpful" 'sorry no one at home' web page when the fetch fails, and that > is what I end up with in the distfile. Thankfully, this 'nice' feature > can be disabled. Once disabled 'make fetch' does its job of trying the > next site after the failure and the proper file(s) are downloaded. > > I do not know whether other ISPs do something similar, does anyone? I > wonder whether FTP sites should be listed before HTTP ones? > > > Cheers, > Nick. > -- Regards, Gary J. Hayers gary@hayers.org PGP Signature http://www.hayers.org/pgp
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