[52946] trunk/dports/_resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 00:04, Toby Peterson wrote:

> On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jun 25, 2009, at 21:48, toby at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 52946
>>>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/52946
>>> Author:   toby at macports.org
>>> Date:     2009-06-25 19:48:17 -0700 (Thu, 25 Jun 2009)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Remove arn.se mirror, I'm tired of having to wait for it to  
>>> timeout. trd.no can stay, at least it fails immediately.
>>
>> I have never noticed arn.se being offline, and it is online now as  
>> far as I can tell. How long have you been experiencing the issue?  
>> What exactly happens?
>
> It's never worked for me. Can't ping, can't traceroute, http  
> requests timeout (instead of being refused outright like trd.no).  
> Oh well, added it back. I'll keep the change locally.

Now that I think about it, if you can't ping it, MacPorts should  
never attempt to download from it. Do you see MacPorts delaying while  
trying to ping it (to determine which server has lowest ping), or is  
it actually trying to retrieve a file from it and then hanging?