Distfile Mirror Issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 29, 2020, at 16:56, Fred Wright wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jul 28, 2020, at 20:29, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> I'll ask them if they want to enable older algorithms or allow non-https access. If they want to do neither, I'll configure MacPorts to remove that mirror on OS versions that can't connect to it.
>> 
>> They've reinstated old ciphers so now it'll work back to Mac OS X 10.6. I'll get master_sites.tcl and archive_sites.tcl updated to pick this and other mirrors only on compatible OS versions.
> 
> I'm not sure that's important, since the SSL-related failures are fairly quick, and having to maintain a compatibility du jour list for mirrors versus OS versions is just an added hassle.

It's done. It's not a big difficulty.

> The mirrors that are actually down are more annoying, since that involves timeouts, but that's not something that one would expect to be reflected in a list (except for permanent decommisioning).

Servers that are down and don't respond to pings won't be included in the list of servers to try. There could be up to 24 hours during which MacPorts would try to contact an offline server, if it was online when it was last pinged.