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internet - Problems with “Test Connectivity” and the Pacletserver


I know there has been a similar questions to this already but the solution did not work for me so here again:


I have internet connection and I can execute such commands like:


Import["http://www.google.com"]


I am also able to use the functionality of Wolfram Alpha such as


== GDP of the USA

but when I do


CountryData["France", "Population"]

it tells me that there is no connection and that I should test the connectivity which I did via "Edit->Preferences->Internet Connectivity->Test Connectivity". When I tried testing it it returned:


"PacletSiteUpdate::err: An error occurred attempting to update paclet information from site http://pacletserver.wolfram.com. Failed writing received data to disk/application"

When I tried to ping the pacletserver.wolfram.com directly in the cmd it tried to ping pacletserver2.wolfram.com which failed. When I did the same with pacletserver1.wolfram.com and pacletserver3.wolfram.com it worked just fine.



So I tried Nikita's Solution with the windows host file which did not work for me.


After that I tried to change the server address within Mathematica with


$PacletSite = pacletserver1.wolfram.com

After that the Connectivity Test returned success. The CountryData-function did still not work, though. When I re-started Mathematica the $PacletSite contains the original value (http://pacletserver.wolfram.com) and the Connectivity Test fails again.


Even though the CountryData-function did not work, I think that the problem is that Mathematica tries to connect to pacletserver2.wolfram.com and the $PacletSite-Value does not influence the CountryData-function.


So is there a way to change the way Mathematica tries to connect to the pacletserver and tell it only to connect to pacletserver1.wolfram.com or pacletserver3.wolfram.com?


Thank you very much for your help




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