[tex-live] Unable to download the remote TL database

[Justin C. Walker]

On Nov 8, 2015, at 14:33 , Karl Berry wrote:

> Hi Paulo,
> 
>    Not all the time, but most of it:
> 
> Has anything changed with the network on your end?
> That's the first thing that comes to mind.
> 
>    http://repositorios.cpai.unb.br/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
> 
> I can't visit that url in a browser.  I suspect something is wrong on
> that host.  I suggest specifying a different mirror (not www.ctan.org)
> explicitly.

FWIW, I can't get to this site, or to the DNS servers that "whois" claims serves the "unb.br" domain.  Looks like an outage (or other problem) in or near Brasilia.

HTH

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