[Live-demo] 5.5 Beta 4 Status

Barry Rowlingson barry.rowlingson at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 07:14:33 EST 2012


On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>
> I get this error from the build host:
>
> wget http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/natty/Packages
> asking libproxy about url
> 'http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/natty/Packages'
> libproxy suggest to use 'direct://'
> --2012-02-12 14:35:35--
>  http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/natty/Packages
> Resolving cran.cnr.berkeley.edu... 2607:f140:0:8000::201, 169.229.201.201
> Connecting to cran.cnr.berkeley.edu|2607:f140:0:8000::201|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2012-02-12 14:35:36 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> Seems to be an IPv6 error, but I can get the file in Firefox on the same
> machine... weird...
> Perhaps it has to do with wget and IPv6

I guess that wget is using IPv6, and Firefox isn't, and that the
host's webserver treats is listening differently on IPv6. Can you
connect to it from Firefox via the IPv6 address - apparently this is
how you do it:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-can-ipv6-address-used-with-webbrowser/

 but I don't have a box with IPv6 to test.

Barry


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