On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Timothy Hart <[email protected]> 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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