[MacPorts] #60509: Upgrading ports sometimes breaks internet connection (was: Upgrading ports sometimes brakes 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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Changes (by ryandesign):

 * cc: ryandesign (added)


Comment:

 Certainly it's not intended behavior for MacPorts to affect your Internet
 connection. I've never heard of that happening before and can't imagine
 how it would be possible. Of course, if you've used MacPorts to install
 software that is designed to interact with your Internet connection, it's
 imaginable that it could be misconfigured or broken in a way that might
 affect your Internet connection.

 I'm not familiar with dnscrypt-proxy and don't know whether it could be
 involved in the problem you're seeing.

 MacPorts does use ping to determine which servers are closest to you to
 hopefully improve download speeds.

 Based on the widget at the top right of the window in your screenshot, it
 looks like you're running OS X 10.7, 10.8 or 10.9, which are of course old
 by now. Maybe upgrading your OS, if that's possible on your hardware,
 would help alleviate this problem.

 It may be unrelated, but ever since I set up a MacPorts build machine for
 32-bit Mac OS X 10.6 in 2016 it has experienced intermittent kernel
 panics. Very often this occurs when building perl modules, and often the
 crash log shows that ping was the active process. I haven't seen the
 problem on our 64-bit build machines for 10.6 or later. But maybe there is
 a bug in ping, or a bug in the way that MacPorts calls it, that is only
 seen on specific computer configurations running old OS versions.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60509#comment:2>
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