port mirrors

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 18, 2012, at 09:35, Chris Jones wrote:

> Surely a better solution here is to figure out what is the issue with themse.uk server, and fix that, rather than try and work around it.
> 
> Could someone with the contact information follow this up ?

The contact information is shown here:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors


On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:10, Chris Jones wrote:

> 
>>> IIRC the order is determined by ping response.
>> 
>> `$ ping mse.uk.packages.macports.org
>> PING www.mirrorservice.org (212.219.56.184): 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from 212.219.56.184: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=17.979 ms
>> 64 bytes from 212.219.56.184: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=17.917 ms`
>> 
>> `$ ping lil.fr.packages.macports.org
>> PING macports.packages.ionic.de (87.98.244.45): 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from 87.98.244.45: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=21.644 ms
>> 64 bytes from 87.98.244.45: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=21.675 ms`
>> 
>> yep, looks about right.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> the ping time doesn't seem to be the issue. More that downloads often timeout, and when they don't, the download speed is pathetically small.

ping time isn't the issue, but it is the explanation for why MacPorts chose to try to download from mse.uk before trying lil.fr.