[tex-live] This morning's 2011 pretest (hyphenation, ftp issues)

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> On Mo, 20 Jun 2011, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Installing [016/137, time/total: 03:21/14:27]: context-account [118k]
>> TLDownload::get_file: response error:
>>   400 FTP return code 000
>> permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!Retrying with wget.
>
> Hmm, always 14-15 connections work out, then one breaks, then again
> 14-15 connections work.
>
> Is there some limit I am not aware of?

I see something similar here (using the utah server)-- I suspect the
limit is imposed closer to this end -- either at the firewall or by
some service provider.

> But the good thing is that most of the time the permanent connectin
> is used, only for a few cases weget.

Last year I had to create a local mirror as tlmgr kept failing, so
despite the breakages the current situation is a vast improvement.

> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
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