> On Apr 20, 2024, at 22:12, Fred Wright wrote:
>
> there was a case a couple of years ago where MacPorts decided to prefer
> python.org to the mirrors (at my location), and the fetch (on 10.9) would
> hang in a way that wasn't subject to a timeout, so it never gave up and never
> moved on to the mirrors. The response when I reported this was "gee, it's
> supposed to have timeouts". I don't know exactly what got fixed, but I
> haven't seen this lately.
You're right, there are timeouts.
If there is a server causing you trouble, you can tell MacPorts not to access
it using the host blacklist setting in macports.conf.
