From: Vincent Ds <thespobo@...>
Date: 2009-04-04T05:53:27+09:00
Subject: Re: annoyance with gems and zlib

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2009, at 08:52, Vincent Ds wrote:
>>> did you even try clicking the above link?
>>
>> Well ... to tell the truth I only got that reply once. The 90 other
>> times everything just said not in gzip format without anything else. I
>> was hoping it was more of a quick fix and a known issue. I'll try
>> turning off opendns and see what happens then.
> 
> Did you try fetching either URL (using wget or curl or telnet)?
> 
> It seems that opendns breaks the internet on purpose.  I would avoid
> it at all cost.

I completely agree. Turned off opendns and everything started working 
magically. Who knew ... perhaps the guys running opendns are Java 
fanboys? Also, rails was using a different version of ruby which led to 
some incompatibilities between rubygems and rails. Everything is fixed 
now and running smoothly with phusion passenger ... brilliant :p Off to 
do some conding!
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