Rockbox 3.1 is released!

[ThaCrip]

@ Llorean

ok, thanks for the reply... now it appears everything is good now... it's 3:11am EST time zone in USA right now... so sometime in the last few hours it must have came online.... which would have put it around 6ish hours before it was available in USA.

but next time ill remember the 24hours rule after the initial post

p.s. Thanks to all the Devs who made Rockbox possible cause without you i most likely would not not bothered upgrading my old MP3 player

[Febs]

ok, thanks for the reply... now it appears everything is good now... it's 3:11am EST time zone in USA right now... so sometime in the last few hours it must have came online.... which would have put it around 6ish hours before it was available in USA.

LamdaCalculus and I are both in the United States.  Neither of us had any trouble. 

[GodEater]

ok, thanks for the reply... now it appears everything is good now... it's 3:11am EST time zone in USA right now... so sometime in the last few hours it must have came online.... which would have put it around 6ish hours before it was available in USA.

Location is pretty much irrelevant. As soon as a release is put on the download servers in Sweden, it's available from there everywhere. The problem you're experiencing is the fact that the address 'download.rockbox.org' is a DNS alias on a round robin which points to a number of servers littered around the world. When your machine requests the IP address for that alias, it gets one from this pool of servers, and unless you run an (I'm assuming windows here) 'ipconfig /dnsflush' that's the address your machine will use for the next 24 hours or so. So if you've been unlucky enough to get the ip address of one of the download mirrors which updated it's copy of the parent servers in sweden just *before* the release was done, then you're out of luck until that 24 hours is up (or you take the step outlined above). Location has nothing to do with it.

[ThaCrip]

ok, thanks for the reply... now it appears everything is good now... it's 3:11am EST time zone in USA right now... so sometime in the last few hours it must have came online.... which would have put it around 6ish hours before it was available in USA.

Location is pretty much irrelevant. As soon as a release is put on the download servers in Sweden, it's available from there everywhere. The problem you're experiencing is the fact that the address 'download.rockbox.org' is a DNS alias on a round robin which points to a number of servers littered around the world. When your machine requests the IP address for that alias, it gets one from this pool of servers, and unless you run an (I'm assuming windows here) 'ipconfig /dnsflush' that's the address your machine will use for the next 24 hours or so. So if you've been unlucky enough to get the ip address of one of the download mirrors which updated it's copy of the parent servers in sweden just *before* the release was done, then you're out of luck until that 24 hours is up (or you take the step outlined above). Location has nothing to do with it.

i assume using a proxy bypasses the dns issues? ... cause once i used a PROXY (which was located in UK) i could download the files... as soon as i switched back to my standard connection it did not work again (well the files still downloaded but im pretty sure it was a cache issue since after i cleared cache and tried downloading like normal again it would not download)

but eventually like i said it ended up working roughly 6 hours after i first tried.

p.s. so basically your DNS stuff must explain why Febs could get it and i could not... pretty much

[GodEater]

i assume using a proxy bypasses the dns issues? ... cause once i used a PROXY (which was located in UK) i could download the files... as soon as i switched back to my standard connection it did not work again (well the files still downloaded but im pretty sure it was a cache issue since after i cleared cache and tried downloading like normal again it would not download)

but eventually like i said it ended up working roughly 6 hours after i first tried.

p.s. so basically your DNS stuff must explain why Febs could get it and i could not... pretty much

Using a proxy helped you since when the proxy did it's own DNS lookup, it clearly got a server address which had already updated with the release. It's just an alternative to doing the dnsflush on your own machine.

[Bagder]

p.s. so basically your DNS stuff must explain why Febs could get it and i could not... pretty much

Actually no. A round robin DNS entry is meant to return the list in different order different times, so your client (browser?) SHOULD have tried different IP addresses at different attempts and clearly all three mirrors weren't that slow so even though DNS is a slow technology you must've struck a series of bad luck or have a bad client.

[GodEater]

Actually no. A round robin DNS entry is meant to return the list in different order different times, so your client (browser?) SHOULD have tried different IP addresses at different attempts and clearly all three mirrors weren't that slow so even though DNS is a slow technology you must've struck a series of bad luck or have a bad client.

That's correct Bagder, but you (perhaps?) forget that Windows caches it's DNS results. So your client only gets a response from a real DNS server some of the time - most of the time it gets given the last result from the last time a real DNS server was queried. I'm not even sure how (or if it's even possible) to turn this behaviour off.

I think most of us linux using folks, unless we've deliberately set up this sort of behaviour for ourselves with maybe a locally caching BIND server, don't see it.

[donp]

The behavior I saw as late as the 25th was that I could download 3.1 myself, but the rockbox utility was saying 3.0 was the released version.

[Llorean]

Are you using the latest Rockbox Utility?

[donp]

Confusion reigned on the utility version.  The utility download page shows Latest Release 1.8 Released 2008-09-26 and I knew I downloaded whatever was current in late November, so thought I was up to date.


Tried running 1.8 and it looks like there's a new dll required mingwm10.dll, and why doesn't WIndows let you cut and paste that name out of the error message since the first thing anyone will do is try to find it?

[gevaerts]

Confusion reigned on the utility version.  The utility download page shows Latest Release 1.8 Released 2008-09-26 and I knew I downloaded whatever was current in late November, so thought I was up to date.

My apologies for this. 1.0.8 was released on 2008-12-23, not 2008-09-23, and I just made a mistake when updating the page.

Also note that it's 1.0.8, not 1.8

[Febs]

Tried running 1.8 and it looks like there's a new dll required mingwm10.dll, and why doesn't WIndows let you cut and paste that name out of the error message since the first thing anyone will do is try to find it?

bluebrother is aware of the issue with the Windows version of RBUtility 1.0.8 but has not yet had an opportunity to fix it.  In the meantime, there is a workaround posted on the Flyspray task:  http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9711

[demonizer]

hmm same error guys, firefox reports the following error:

"Connection Interrupted

The document contains no data.

The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."

alternatively, if someone has the zip file for ipod 4th gen and 5th gen i'd be glad to have those files.  i need it relatively quick as i have to set it up in a friends pod and which mite take me a while to their head around rockbox.

thanx in advance..

love and light





       
       
     


     
     

[Chronon]

So, did you try again?

[JDub]

Can anyone expand on this:

"2008-12-25: Preliminary support for Ipod accessories."

Does this mean Rockbox might be able to interface with ipod controls in cars in the future? Or does it just mean basic accessories like video cables that plug into the ipod dock etc?