Re: [MiKTeX] Miktex upgrade ?

[Hans F. N. <ha...@mi...>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
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> > Can you ping www.miktex.org / the CTAN ftp-servers? If so, you at least
> > have connection...
>
> Here's what I get:
>
>   Pinging www.miktex.org [192.67.198.53] with 32 bytes of data:
>
>   Request timed out.
>   Request timed out.
>   Request timed out.
>   Request timed out.

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The server for www.miktex.org (at this moment) is IIweb3.webmailer.de -
maybe your ISP is blocking that domain (webmailer.de) for some reason. Or
maybe you are (using a proxy or vhost)?

> > > P.S.  I have gone through the FAQ etc. to no avail.
> >
> > Good that you have read the FAQ - to bad it didn't help :-)
>
> I ALWAYS, ALWAYS read the FAQ, the manual, the readme.txt, the mailing list
> ...!

Sorry, I really, really, didn't want to insult you.

> > ######################################################################
> > # The FAQ doesn't cover too much so everybody should also try the    #
> > # excellent MiKTeX search page - http://www.miktex.org/search.html   #
> > # I can't say this often enough...                                   #
> > ######################################################################
>
> Well, right now I'm at home ... so the excellent MiKTeX search page is not
> reachable!

...

Hans