Re: core archive corrupted

[Tyson Whitehead]

Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Oh well..  I guess someone's server is munging
> packets along the route. :(
> Weird.  I thought I would post this to let anyone who has the
> same problem know
> that the mirror sites, like peanuts.org, should be okay.
That must mean that the ftp protocol does not have any allowance for error
correction!  That's a bit surprising!  Maybe it simply relies
on the checksums in the TCP packets to catch any problems.  If so,
then either a machine along the way is mangling the data section of the
packet and then recomputing the checksum to match, your machine is blissfuly
ignoring invalid checksums, or such a mass of bad packets is being passed
back and forth that a checksum occasionally matches up to invalid data....
hummm....

-T

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