> It occurs to me to wonder what's in these files.  Could there be a proxy in 
> the way that's trying to e.g. ask for a password?

In both instances, you can run the `file ...` utility to learn what your 
computer might think the file is. For example:

    $ file 
/opt/local/var/macports/software/libiconv/libiconv-1.14_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2
    
/opt/local/var/macports/software/libiconv/libiconv-1.14_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2:
 bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
    $ file 
/opt/local/var/macports/software/libiconv/libiconv-1.14_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160
    
/opt/local/var/macports/software/libiconv/libiconv-1.14_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160:
 data

The *.tbz2 file should be an archive of the destroot folder for any given 
package, so if you expand it you'd fine the usual opt/local structures inside 
it.

The *.rmd160 file is a hash which will just be gibberish, always of a specific 
length. If you see HTML in this file or `file ...` tells you it's not just 
data, then you are right to assume something is blocking access.

You might find some extra information if you try downloading the files using a 
browser:
http://packages.macports.org/libiconv/

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