Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
it also periodically gave a "message saying it is no longer in the list of Cygwin mirrors", as report for mirrors.kernel.org by René Berber.
--- Is the message that it is no longer in the list of Cygwin mirrors from "setup.exe"? How does it know/Where does it get it's information?
Re firewall ... unlikely, http/ftp are unfiltered. It's disturbing that the two "mirrors.kernel.org" servers aren't in sync. I suspect I'm pulling a bogus image from the alternate kern.org mirror. I was getting inconsistent results -- thought it might have been the new setup.exe accessing a different data file. Very confusing. Sigh. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/