[CentOS-mirror] OT: weird problem downloading big files

Sergio Belkin

sebelk at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 09:50:27 UTC 2008


2008/2/1, Kasparek Tomas <kasparek at fit.vutbr.cz>:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:50:18AM -0200, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> > I can't download "big" files, I mean, I can't download well DVD iso files,
> for
> > example, if I try download any file of
> >
> http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/geeklog/staticpages/index.php?page=20080123170324195
> > I get something so:
> >
> > wget
> >
> http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/espejo/Mandriva/2008.0/mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-dvd-i586.iso
> > --00:40:53--
> >
> http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/espejo/Mandriva/2008.0/mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-dvd-i586.iso
> >            => `mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-dvd-i586.iso'
> > Resolviendo linux.cucea.udg.mx... 148.202.23.6
> > Connecting to linux.cucea.udg.mx|148.202.23.6|:80... conectado.
> > Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
> > Longitud: 269.768.704 (257M) [application/octet-stream]
>
> first, you should switch your wget to eng by LC_ALL=C wget...



Here my output in english  :

LC_ALL=C wget http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/espejo/Mandriva/2008.0/mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-dvd-i586.iso
--07:49:15--  http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/espejo/Mandriva/2008.0/mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-dvd-i586.iso
           => `mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-dvd-i586.iso'
Resolving linux.cucea.udg.mx... 148.202.23.6
Connecting to linux.cucea.udg.mx|148.202.23.6|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 269,768,704 (257M) [application/octet-stream]

Same proble trying others DVD iso files   :((((

>
> >  0%
> > [
>         ]
> > 14.872        17.01K/s
> >
> > 257M??? Why other iso files has similar problem....
>
> this is in 90% problem on the client side (I expect you tried other mirrors
> as well). I can get the file correctly, one thing that seems strange is that
> wget claims the file is 257MB - so from his point of view he downloads it
> all.

Yes, I tried a lot of mirror, a lot of iso distros :(

>
> One explanation may be that this mirror was not in sync when you tried to
> download files.

>
> Bye
>
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