Really slow distfiles.macports.org

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 11:12 AM, William Siegrist wrote:
> Blair, we're looking into the problem. Are you located outside of the US? 
> 
> Is anyone else having slow download problems?

I'm seeing similar results from a well connected machine in Dallas, TX (it picked up a little after a few minutes, but was still slower than normal):

--->  Attempting to fetch openssl-1.0.0h.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/openssl
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 3953k  100 3953k    0     0   5839      0  0:11:33  0:11:33 --:--:-- 25684


IIRC apple does silly filtering on their network, so I can't give you a useful traceroute...

(trace from 129.250.34.2)
% lft -p distfiles.macports.org
Tracing ........***T
TTL LFT trace to rsync.macports.org (17.254.20.244)/icmp
 1  ge-0-7-0-8.r08.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.34.1) 0.7ms
 2  ae-6.r21.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.80) 4.1ms
 3  ae-4.r21.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.25) 44.8ms
 4  ae-2.r06.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.55) 42.0ms
 5  xe-0-0-0-4.r06.snjsca04.us.ce.gin.ntt.net (128.241.219.130) 43.8ms
 6  border1.t7-1-bbnet1.sje.pnap.net (66.151.144.4) 43.6ms
**  [neglected] no reply packets received from TTLs 7 through 9
10  [target] rsync.macports.org (17.254.20.244) 56.8ms


> On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
>> Here I got 4 K/sec download and openssl was so slow I manually downloaded it from openssl.org:
>> 
>> --->  Fetching py27-distribute
>> --->  distribute-0.6.25.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/py-distribute
>> --->  Attempting to fetch distribute-0.6.25.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/py-distribute
>> % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>>                                Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>> 100  614k  100  614k    0     0   4503      0  0:02:19  0:02:19 --:--:--  4561

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