Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:35:38 -0400 From: AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net> To: chet@po.cwru.edu Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, alane@geeksrus.net, roam@ringlet.net, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade of bash-2.05b_1 failing now for second day Message-ID: <20020916143538.GB87117@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <020916141859.AA20253.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> References: <020916141859.AA20253.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:18:59AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Just add a more appropriate MASTER_SITE..we can't do much about broken >> FTP sites. > >Excuse me? How exactly does ftp.cwru.edu's policy of asking for ident >information make it a `broken FTP site'? The ftp server is waiting for >a response to its ident request, and fetch times out. > >Chet And if I don't run an ident server, or I run one that returns ERROR no matter what, or I don't have that port open at all? Why should I have to change my firewall and my system daemons in order to fetch some source code? Maybe you could make sure that ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors also always have the latest version and patches.... that would solve the problem nicely without any arguing over who is misconfigured. - Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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