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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:33:43 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fail to fetch vulnxml file each night, as seen in daily security,  run output.
Message-ID:  <20150902173343.f6c4fee1.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <55E71572.1020003@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <55E700C9.4080000@gmail.com> <55E7020B.6040404@hiwaay.net> <55E707E7.4070904@gmail.com> <20150902171545.fd0e9d47.freebsd@edvax.de> <55E71572.1020003@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:27:46 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2015/09/02 16:15, Polytropon wrote:
> > Cannot confirm:
> > 
> > % fetch http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2
> > vuln.xml.bz2                                  100% of  525 kB 1122 kBps
> > 
> > I can download the file just fine, even from within
> > a web browser.
> > 
> > Are you sure you don't have some strange networking
> > issue?
> > 
> > Can you, for example, ping vuxml.freebsd.org, and
> > then open http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/ (it is
> > a web page) in your browser?
> 
> It's GeoIP load balanced, meaning you get directed to a different server
> depending on where you are in the world.  The European area server is
> fine -- but the one wherever the OP lives apparently doesn't have the
> required file.

Thanks for the pointer. I just checked: From my location
the host resolves to 213.138.116.80. Could the OP temporarily
change to the EU area server in an easy way to obtain the
required file (even if the download takes more time)?



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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