On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 13:25, Timothy Murphy<gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > Thanks for the reply: > ----------------------- > [tim at helen ~]$ host mirrors.fedoraproject.org > mirrors.fedoraproject.org is an alias for wildcard.fedoraproject.org. > wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 66.35.62.166 > wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 80.239.156.215 > wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 152.46.7.222 > wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 209.132.176.120 > ----------------------- "host" seems to return the right IPs, but: > [tim at helen ~]$ wget http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist > --14:43:39-- http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist > Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122 "wget" is resolving it to the wrong IP... (???) Do you have something strange in /etc/hosts? What is your /etc/resolv.conf like? Can you try to use "curl" instead of "wget" to see if it resolves right? > $ curl http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist > # either path=, or repo= and arch= must be specified Also, use "curl -v http://..." to see to which IP you are connecting. > I shall run wireshark on my server, > and see how the requests differ. As the problem is in domain names, I would say it's either /etc/hosts or a DNS cache, so sniffing the network won't probably give you many clues... Does your Windows machine use different resolvers than your Linux machine? HTH, Filipe