[Live-demo] 5.5 Beta 4 Status

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 02/12/2012 02:14 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> 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
>

Actually it is the exact opposite, wget does not get the file and 
firefox does.
I think that either wget has to be set to IPv6 by default 
(http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2007/10/31/using-ipv6-by-default-with-wget/)
or I should change DNS to the machines(???)

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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos