port mirrors

[Chris Jones]

On 18 Sep 2012, at 10:45pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Sep 18, 2012, at 09:35, Chris Jones wrote:
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>> 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:
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> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors

Are you suggesting we (I) should contact them ourselves ? Surely this should come from some 'official' MacPorts contact ?

Chris

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