Daniel, Great information - thank you for the trac URL. I was unaware of that resource, and it's exactly what I needed.
I don't disagree with your assessment of the current problem. Unfortunately it's not within my sphere of influence to affect a change without using months of time dedicated to the effort. And it's not likely my manager would give me that much time. Just trying to work within the constraints I have. Thanks again for the quick reply. Tim Hart On Oct 23, 2013, at 3:50 PM, "Daniel J. Luke" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. | > > +========================================================+ > > >
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