[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0b2 (original) (raw)

Bob Hanson d2mp1a9 at newsguy.com
Mon Jan 6 04:32:15 CET 2014

On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 21:09:53 -0600, Tim Peters wrote:

[Bob Hanson] > Forgive me, but I'm an old man with very poor vision. Using my > magnifying glass, I see it is two very long URLs ending with > something like after the blah-blah: < ... akametechnology.com> > > More precisely, these two IP addresses: > 23.59.190.113:80 > 23.59.190.106:80

So: C:\Code>ping -a 23.59.190.113 Pinging a23-59-190-113.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.59.190.113] with 32 bytes of data: [...] So it's just Akamai caching content. Common as mud. Can't say specifically what was being cached, but it could be that your ISP contracts with Akamai.

Still not following why this should be happening. I was installing from my harddrive -- nothing needed to be cached as far as I was concerned. Indeed, I would normally think I could install while offline -- and often do on my PCs which are "air-gapped."

Still wondering why, all of a sudden after years of using a firewalled msiexec.exe, I get it now trying to connect out while installing 3.4.0b2 from my harddrive...?

> > My firewall didn't complain when I installed 3.4.0b2 on Windows.

> I don't use the Windows firewall, and I have mine sent to block > all apps connecting in or out unless I make specific rules for > them. I have never authorized C:/Windows/System32/msiexec.exe to > connect in or out (and it didn't ;-) ). Same here on both counts. We're getting nowhere with admirable speed ;-)

So, we just need to make some distance -- our speed is good? ;-)

Less non-seriously, thanks for all the help, Tim (and others) --

Bob Hanson

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