On Oct 23, 2013, at 15:42, Timothy Hart 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 > > I understand each port maintainer may change or modify their list of mirrors > at any time. I'm interested in knowing how frequently that happens > historically - and in aggregate.
mirror_sites change often. But most ports list individual master_sites and do not use the mirror_sites list. So attempting to whitelist all the domains ports may fetch from is virtually impossible. The archive_sites list is very stable. > 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. Yes. We have a wiki page detailing this problem: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers > 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. DNS that returns a result when no result should be return is broken and needs to be fixed by your system administrators. No other valid interpretation of the relevant specifications exists. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
