Possible temporary unavailability of MacPorts due to DNS changes

[Ryan Schmidt]

I'm switching macports.org to a new DNS provider momentarily.

Hopefully this will not result in an interruption of service, but it's possible you'll be unable to access the services on macports.org for a short time. This would include selfupdating or syncing MacPorts, downloading binary archives or distfiles from our network of mirror servers, accessing our web sites and source code repository, and sending email to our forwarding addresses.

DNS changes can take some time to propagate throughout the Internet, so different regions of the world may see outages at different times. If you notice a problem where a server appears to be unavailable, a hostname does not resolve or an email to a macports.org address bounces, please wait an hour, then try again.

I'll be monitoring the transition and will send out another email once it appears to be completed.

-Ryan Schmidt, MacPorts management