On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Guido Falsi <m...@madpilot.net> wrote: > portsnap5 has less weight now and is in fact being used less. My systems > are more frequently using other servers now. > > A few days ago portsnap5 did not respond, anyway in that case portsnap > simply timed out and tried another server shortly after.
Not sure if it's related, but portsnap5 is also IPv6 at this writing: ro...@mycroft:~$ for suffix in `seq 1 7`; do host portsnap${suffix}.freebsd.org; done portsnap1.freebsd.org has address 204.109.56.116 portsnap2.freebsd.org has address 208.83.221.214 portsnap3.freebsd.org has address 212.101.4.241 portsnap4.freebsd.org has address 93.158.155.199 portsnap5.freebsd.org has address 204.9.55.80 portsnap5.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4978:1:420::cc09:3750 portsnap6.freebsd.org has address 149.20.53.40 portsnap6.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:3:ffe0::40 Host portsnap7.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Note also that the update and portsnap servers appear to be relatively independent of one another, with only the "5" server sharing the same IP: ro...@mycroft:~$ for suffix in `seq 1 7`; do host portsnap${suffix}.freebsd.org; done portsnap1.freebsd.org has address 204.109.56.116 portsnap2.freebsd.org has address 208.83.221.214 portsnap3.freebsd.org has address 212.101.4.241 portsnap4.freebsd.org has address 93.158.155.199 portsnap5.freebsd.org has address 204.9.55.80 portsnap5.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4978:1:420::cc09:3750 portsnap6.freebsd.org has address 149.20.53.40 portsnap6.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:3:ffe0::40 Host portsnap7.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Royce _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"