Download sources from servers that don't respond to ping

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 3, 2009, at 18:46, Jann Röder wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt schrieb:
>>
>
>> On Oct 3, 2009, at 18:27, Jann Röšder wrote:
>>
>>> I have seen an instance where the macports mirror servers were tried
>>> which did not have the file. The server specified in the port file  
>>> was
>>> not tried at all. For some reason even though the macports mirror
>>> servers didn't have the file a file with size 0 was created, thus
>>> leading to a hash mismatch.
>>>
>>> Obviously this behavior is not good
>>
>> I agree, that doesn't sound good. What port was this?
>

> It was the eiffelstudio65 port, I now added another source which does
> respond to ping requests - problem "solved".

Ok. And the file has now been mirrored by the distfiles mirror, so  
that solves it as well.

> The n.ethz.ch server (which
> is not pingable) is still included in the source list.

Perhaps you could speak with the owners of that server about making it  
pingable.

I'm still not clear how you ended up with a 0-sized file with  
obviously mismatched checksums if no 0-sized file existed on any of  
the master_sites. If you can reproduce that problem, please send the  
debug output.