Podcast intermittently getting error 8006

The first time I tried to subscribe to your podcast it failed with an 'unexpected error'. I was able to access the feed from FireFox, and then when trying again in iTunes it worked OK.

I can only conclude that your server is sometimes not responding correctly - it may be that it fails on the first request after a period, but then is OK on subsequent tries: this is somthing you could test. You will need to take this up with the people running your server.

I'm afraid I can't give you a solid answer to that one. I have seen other cases where a server wasn't responding to iTunes though it was fine with a browser, though usually it was consistent rather than intermittent. One person found it was a permissions issue with the particular directory on the server: in his case it was the media files and he was able to move them to another directory. You can't just do that with the feed because the Store will lose contact with it, and it has to be able to read the feed for you to be able to move it to another URL - the method is descibed here:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/podcast.html#move

Other than that we're into server technology which is outside my experience.

The Store will usually take 1-2 days to update, but of course if when it checks it can't read the file it won't do anything. If it keeps on not being able to read the feed you will find the podcast being removed from the Store, so it is something you need to deal with/