Need help: Some port fetches consistently fail

Sam Finn lsfinn at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 12:34:28 PDT 2014


Both agree: 

Appletree [116] Yeah? curl -I http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.8.55
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:31:25 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-gzip
Content-Length: 562616
Last-Modified: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:19:12 GMT
Connection: close
Accept-Ranges: bytes

Appletree [117] Yeah? curl -I http://cjj.kr.distfiles.macports.org/expat/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-gzip
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "683330017"
Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:59:26 GMT
Content-Length: 562616
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:31:43 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.28


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Lee Samuel Finn
lsfinn at gmail.com




On Jul 28, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

> I would employ curl to check headers on a request, though any tool of choice should work:
> curl -I URL
> 
> For the superb-dca2 mirror, I see it’s running nginx/0.8.55. Is that what you see?
> 
> $ curl -I http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: nginx/0.8.55
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:24:23 GMT
> Content-Type: application/x-gzip
> Content-Length: 562616
> Last-Modified: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:19:12 GMT
> Connection: close
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> 
> Similarly, the macports mirror is lighttpd:
> $ curl -I http://cjj.kr.distfiles.macports.org/expat/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Content-Type: application/x-gzip
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> ETag: "683330017"
> Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:59:26 GMT
> Content-Length: 562616
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:25:24 GMT
> Server: lighttpd/1.4.28
> 
> If those are different, and the “replacement” server signature doesn’t appear reasonable, we might start looking into DNS records to see if they’re being hijacked.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 28, 2014, at 15:22, Sam Finn <lsfinn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Doesn’t a 403 indicate that the server received and understood the request, but refused to act on it? In any event, there is no proxy and I’ve checked that my firewalls (the mac os firewall and intego net barrier) are down. Am I missing something? 
>> 
>> Other information that may (or may not) be helpful: 
>> * I’m reaching the network through an apple AirPort Extreme, which is providing both NAT and DHCP services
>> * The computer I’m working on right now is set-up as the default host (i.e., it has a DHCP reservation, whose IP is the default host). 
>> 
>> Thanks very much for any and all help!
> 

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