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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.
Quote from: ThaCrip on December 24, 2008, 03:12:31 AMok, 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
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.
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?
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