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Subject: Re: troubles getting ports index
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"Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> writes:

> Hello,
>    Is anyone else having difficulties getting the ports index? I do:
>
> cd /usr/ports
> make fetchindex
>
> and the download speed is so slow that it eventually halts and i get
> an error about the file being truncated. This has been occurring all
> day today on several machines and i'm starting to wonder if it's
> something local or an issue with the server i'm pulling from?

The obvious test would be to try a different server...