From: John Mc Donald (johnmcd at domain cs.may.ie)
Date: Fri 03 Sep 1999 - 10:12:43 IST
No, initially I thought that's what it was but the file is only a meg and its a
leased
line to the University. Also I have downloaded a lot bigger files that this
before.
The only explanation I could think of was that a certain stream of bytes could
be
causing some dodgy router to break the connection. Then when I thought about
it a little more I realised how ridiculous this sounded.
The only viable explanation seems to be, as Padraig Brady suggested, this
spiralling death problem. So far I haven't managed to get any info on this
though.
John.
Kevin Dobey wrote:
> This is a complete shot in the dark but is it possible that your
> firewall/router/provider is messing up your download when it hits a certain
> download size.
>
> what i mean is if it's always failing at a certain file it could it be
> possible that your reaching a certain size i.e. 50 megs or something.
>
> Try kick of a long download and see if this also fails when it hits the same
> number of bytes as your RH download ?
>
> Don't some routers allow accounting of some sort where you can limit the
> throught put to a certain mask/ip.
>
> As i say i ain't got a clue about this stuff !
>
> Just my half cent worth !
>
> Regards
> Kevin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Mc Donald [mailto:johnmcd at domain cs.may.ie]
> > Sent: 01 September 1999 16:40
> > To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> > Subject: [ILUG] [Kinda OT] Bizare behaviour from ftp
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been trying to get a local installation of the RH6.0 CD on a
> > machine
> > in our department. I have tried to do this off of a number of sites on
> > the net
> > and from a number of machines inside our network with a consistent
> > problem.
> >
> > The problem is that every time I try to download
> > howto-korean-6.0-4.noarch.rpm
> > the connection stalls and eventually times out(!?!). I have
> > had similar
> > problems before when downloading other versions of Linux, but always
> > managed to get around it by going to a site that will tar and gzip the
> > directory
> > structure into one file.
> >
> > Now, in actual fact I don't want howto-korean but I would
> > like to try to
> > get
> > to the bottom of this problem. The reasons for this are
> > 1. I want to mirror RH Linux but cant if the mirror software keeps
> > timing out
> > when it gets to this file, and,
> > 2. Because its pissing me off!
> >
> > I am no network expert but it seems to me that something is happening
> > internally
> > in our network because the problem occurs whether I try it from a Unix
> > or
> > Windows box.
> >
> > Does anybody out there have any remotest idea what could be
> > causing this
> >
> > problem?
> >
> > TIA,
> > John.
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