Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of MisbehavingServers


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Jul 30, 2010, 4:58:44 PM (14 years ago)
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ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
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    11== Checksum mismatches due to misbehaving DNS or web servers ==
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    3 You were probably directed to this page due to a checksum mismatch where the downloaded distfile appeared to contain HTML. There a a few reasons this can happen:
     3You were probably directed to this page due to a checksum mismatch where the downloaded distfile appeared to contain HTML. There are a few reasons this can happen:
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    55 * '''Your ISP's DNS servers redirect lookups of nonexistent host names to a search page.''' Some ISPs have decided that instead of returning the correct error code when a hostname does not exist, they will pretend that it does and say that its IP address is one that actually belongs to a web server they run. The idea is to be convenient for users, since it gives them a search page when they try to visit a nonexistent site in a browser. However, as well as violating the relevant Internet standards, this behaviour breaks many programs (such as MacPorts) that need to know whether a hostname exists or not.