Re: trouble downloading

[Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>]

At 11:14 PM +0200 2008-08-29, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>2008/8/29 Dave Yost <Dave@yost.com>:
>> Can't see how to download the latest sources for building.
>>
> > Go to http://zsh.sourceforge.net/
>> Note the 'Download' heading.
>>  -> Hmm. must be either under Contents or Mirrors.
>> Click on Contents
>>  -> Here I see only filenames, not complete URLs. Gotta make one up.
>> Try http://zsh.sourceforge.net/zsh.tar.bz2
>>  -> Nope. gets an error page
>> Try http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Arc/zsh.tar.bz2
>>  -> Nope. gets an error page
>
>And when you go back and click on Mirrors instead?

I expected to see a list of mirrors of where I am now, in other words, same stuff, different host. That's the custom I'm used to. But apparently by "Mirrors" you mean "Download locations".

Also: none of the US download URLs is currently working from either of hosts I tried (one in Silicon Valley and one in L.A.)

6 212 Z% curl -Ov --progress-bar ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/shells/zsh/zsh.tar.bz2               
* getaddrinfo(3) failed for ftp.rge.com:21
* Couldn't resolve host 'ftp.rge.com'
* Closing connection #0
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'ftp.rge.com'
6 213 Z% curl -Ov --progress-bar ftp://uiarchive.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/shells/zsh/zsh.tar.bz2
* getaddrinfo(3) failed for uiarchive.uiuc.edu:21
* Couldn't resolve host 'uiarchive.uiuc.edu'
* Closing connection #0
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'uiarchive.uiuc.edu'
6 214 Z% curl -Ov --progress-bar ftp://archive.progeny.com/zsh/zsh.tar.bz2                  
* About to connect() to archive.progeny.com port 21 (#0)
*   Trying 69.46.228.180... ^C
130 215 Z% curl -Ov --progress-bar ftp://sunsite.org.uk/packages/zsh/zsh.tar.bz2
* About to connect() to sunsite.org.uk port 21 (#0)
*   Trying 193.195.63.7... Network is unreachable
* couldn't connect to host
* Closing connection #0
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
7 216 Z%