From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 17 09:05:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9176F16A41F for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:05:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E7E43D45 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:05:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:05:44 +0200 id 000000BA.432BDC68.000036A0 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:05:44 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050917090544.GB13930@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050916215916.GA15249@epia2.farid-hajji.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050916215916.GA15249@epia2.farid-hajji.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: Dick Hoogendijk Subject: Re: Removing unresponsive sites in bsd.sites.mk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:05:46 -0000 On 16 Sep cpghost wrote: > While doing 'portupgrade -a', I regulary experience problems while > fetching KDE distfiles from the first host in the MASTER_SITE_KDE list > (in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk), ftp.scarlet.be. This site apparently > stalls connections (instead of dropping them?), which slows down a > portupgrade -a with KDE components considerably. Removing the first > two entries from the MASTER_SITE_KDE list which point to > ftp.scarlet.be is a work-around that solves this problem. > > Is there a more permanent way to drop this site without having to > manually edit bsd.sites.mk after every cvsup of the ports tree? Some > magic variable to set in /etc/rc.conf or so? Any idea? What I did was: put this site in my hosts file as 127.0.0.1 Works for me. ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja