Truncated downloads with NAT

[karl]

In short: downloads are truncated...

Example:

ftp_proxy=http://proxy.xxxxx.com:8080/ wget ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
15:04:14 (76.64 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 113699. Retrying.

Same kind of command:

ftp_proxy=http://proxy.xxxx.com:80 lwp-mirror ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY toto
Transfer truncated: only 116617 out of 128142 bytes received

• This runs just fine in virtualbox 2.0.2
• same problem using http url: http_proxy=​http://proxy.xxxx:8080/ wget ​ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
• same problem on a friends's computer running virtualbox 2.1.2
• no problem on another friend's computer running virtualbox 2.0.2
• I tried changing the network config of virtualbox without any result

I tried to test the 2.1.0 version but could not install and make it run anymore....

The consequence of this is that "cpan" software to install perl packages is no more usable...

HOST=windows xp sp3 GUEST=ubuntu 8.04

[Frank Mehnert]

Is this problem related to the proxy?