[Bug-wget] Bug and Solution to Bug

[Todd Booth]

Hello,

 

I found a bug in wget and I also found the solution to the bug.

 

Here is a description.

 

I have two Ethernet interfaces.  1) local/private and 2) public Ethernet
interface.  

 

By default wget fails because it binds locally on my local/private Ethernet
interface when connecting to the Internet !!! BUG

 

Note, I use DHCP to get my public IP address and I hard code my
local/private IP address.

 

To get around the bug:  I needed to manually tell wget to locally bind on
the public Ethernet interface.  Then it works fine.

 

Here is my solution (with a little debugging added on).

 

wget --inet4-only --debug --verbose --bind-address=77.110.21.210
http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/
<http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/%3cmyOinkCode%3e/snortrules-sna
pshot-2905.tar.gz> <myOinkCode>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz  

 

Note: I’m using wget from Vyatta’s latest release -> Debian.  Here is the
startup message:

 

address@hidden:~$ show system boot-messages

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu

[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.37-1-586-vyatta-virt (address@hidden) (gcc
versi 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Thu Jul 7 22:30:24 PDT 2011

 

Could you please let me know if this is a known bug or a new bug?

 

Thanks and Regards,

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