Tried that when I read Kevin's message. It failed, until I unset a http_proxy env variable, which I'v now tracked down and eliminated. Everything is working fine now, thanks

On 30/03/17 13:40, RW wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:45:59 +0100
Terry Stewart wrote:

Hi

I'm having trouble using sa-update where it says "channel: could not
find working mirror, channel failed".

Mar 29 12:36:28.914 [12498] dbg: http: /usr/sfw/bin/wget -q
--max-redirect=2 --tries=3 --dns-timeout=20 --connect-timeout=30
--read-timeout=300 -N -- http://sa-update.dnswl.org/1786853.tar.gz

What happens when you run wget manually on the same machine, leaving
out the -q.

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Terry Stewart
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Cambridge Institute of Public Health
Forvie Site
Robinson Way
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0SR

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