[MacPorts] #60509: Upgrading ports sometimes breaks internet connection

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#60509: Upgrading ports sometimes breaks internet connection
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  Reporter:  iEFdev  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal  |  Milestone:
 Component:  base    |    Version:  2.6.2
Resolution:          |   Keywords:
      Port:          |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Yes, the previous PR that used only `ping` and no longer used `cut` and
 `grep` was included in 2.6.3.

 The new PR limits MacPorts to pinging 50 sites at a time. So first
 MacPorts figures out which sites are candidates to use for the port you're
 installing (including our official mirrors), then figures out which of
 those have not been pinged in the past 24 hours, and if there are more
 than 50, it pings 50 of them at random, rather than pinging all of them
 (potentially hundreds, as we previously discussed) as it used to. This
 might result in the server that is actually closest to you not being used
 on that installation if it wasn't among the 50 random pings. If you then
 install or upgrade another port, that could lead to up to another 50 hosts
 being pinged, potentially uncovering a server closer than was found in the
 first 50. And so on.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60509#comment:33>
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