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FTP IANA source unreliable #11

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omus opened this issue Oct 13, 2015 · 1 comment
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FTP IANA source unreliable #11

omus opened this issue Oct 13, 2015 · 1 comment

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omus commented Oct 13, 2015

TimeZones.jl retrieves its information directly from IANA's FTP server. This server commonly cannot be connected to resulting in the error message from the download function:

curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer

We currently are automatically retrying to download files up to three times which works most of the time but can still cause Travis builds to fail or be annoying for first time uses. We should either find some reliable mirrors or maybe keep a copy of the timezone rules within the repo.

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omus commented Mar 15, 2016

One other reason to find an alternative source is to avoid issues with firewalls. Some networks disallow the ports required for transferring data via FTP.

@omus omus changed the title IANA source unreliable FTP IANA source unreliable Mar 17, 2016
@omus omus closed this as completed in #23 Mar 19, 2016
omus pushed a commit to invenia/TimeZones.jl that referenced this issue Aug 15, 2018
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