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Re: [trinity-users] Problem with mirror system?? -- was Re: [trinity-users] Did I miss something? Changing sources.list to pearsoncomputing.net

From: Richard Glock <vk5re@...>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:25:02 +0930

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 14:26:58 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Thu September 3 2015 18:51:49 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> >> I had already tried the yosemite one
> >> http://tde-mirror.yosemite.net/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian/dists/jess
> >>ie/ main/binary-amd64/ If I right click on the "Packages" file and choose
> >> "save
> >> file" I got a "The download cannot be saved because an unknown error
> >> occurred. Please try again." error message.
> >> Usually it would just work and save the file.
> >
> > Among the thousands of legitimate file-does-not-exist errors in the
> > mirror's web server logs I see a number of weird ones like this.
> >
> > [Wed Sep 02 22:59:07 2015] [error] [client 82.234.71.83] File does not
> > exist:
> > /comm/support/tde-mirror.yosemite.net/html/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu
> >/dists/trusty/main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz/dists/trusty/
> >main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2 [Wed Sep 02 22:59:07 2015] [error] [client
> > 82.234.71.83] File does not exist:
> > /comm/support/tde-mirror.yosemite.net/html/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu
> >/dists/trusty/main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz/dists/trusty/
> >main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 [Wed Sep 02 22:59:07 2015] [error] [client
> > 82.234.71.83] File does not exist:
> > /comm/support/tde-mirror.yosemite.net/html/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu
> >/dists/trusty/main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz/dists/trusty/
> >main/i18n/Translation-fr_FR.bz2
> >
> > I'm don't know what kind of mistake or bug might cause them.
> >
> > Which browser and version are you right-clicking in to "save file"?
> >
> > --Mike
>
> Those are rather odd; it almost looks like they might be the result of a
> MITM attack or other malicious redirect activity.  A quick Google search
> shows one potential known malicious site with URLs of <server
> redacted>/comm/support.htm and not much else.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing issues with the mirror network (aside from the
> usual timeouts and overall slow speeds)?
>
> Tim
>
The redirect from pearsoncomputing to yosemite happens correctly here.

RG