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?) -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
