Yeah, my initial thoughts were along the lines that the hosting company had somehow stuffed up a server upgrade.
If I can find a case where someone other than me can hit the same issue then I'll consider entertaining the same thought again.
But, as it currently stands, it apparently affects only me and it happens to me *every* time I download that file over http.
OTOH, if it is affecting only me, then that doesn't really matter - that would be good news.

There are some other oddities that I didn't mention.
When I updated www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/Math-Float128.ppd, I also updated www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/package.xml - but there's no problem grabbing the updated version of package.xml.
It's only the updated version of Math-Float128.ppd that I can't grab.
Now that's really odd, isn't it. Two files in the same directory - no problem getting the current version of one of them, but I can only get the *previous* version of the other !

Actually, there's at least one other file (in a different directory) that was also updated, and is affected in the same way.

Anyway, thanks for checking - it helps to know that it's not *just* the hosting company that can wget the current version of the file.
And thanks for going to the additional trouble of thinking about it, and of articulating those thoughts.

I would strongly suspect that my problem was indicative of some caching on my local machine if not for the fact that it's happening on all three of my local machines - two (ie the two Linux ones) of which don't get fired up all that often.
That all three machines are affected in the same way leads me to think that it's my ISP that's throwing the spanner into the works. (My next step will probably be to see what my ISP thinks of that hypothesis :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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