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[Timothy Hart]

Daniel,

Great information - thank you for the trac URL. I was unaware of that resource, and it's exactly what I needed.

I don't disagree with your assessment of the current problem. Unfortunately it's not within my sphere of influence to affect a change without using months of time dedicated to the effort. And it's not likely my manager would give me that much time.

Just trying to work within the constraints I have. Thanks again for the quick reply.

Tim Hart



On Oct 23, 2013, at 3:50 PM, "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Timothy Hart <tjhart at me.com> wrote:
>> Is the list of mirrors fairly stable? I'm referring to the contents of the file at 
>> 
>> rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl
>> and
>> rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/fetch/archive_sites.tcl
> 
> You can see for yourself since they're stored in our svn repository.
> 
> The trac browser might answer your question: https://trac.macports.org/log/trunk/dports/_resources/port1.0/fetch
> 
>> Why?
>> I have an issue in my organization where our DNS servers are configured to 'helpfully' give an IP address back for every query. In cases where the host is actually not known, the IP address is configured to perform a search and respond with an HTML page. As a result macports installs can fail when the first mirror site is not found.
>> 
>> The network group is willing to consider white-listing macports mirror sites for us as a solution. I want to make sure that maintaining a whitelist of (currently over 300) mirrors won't turn into a maintenance headache.
> 
> maybe you can remind your network group that not all internet traffic is webservers <-> web browsers? (and/or maybe you can use your own dns server so you aren't using the broken ones that your organization provides?)
> 
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