Problem (again) with portsnap5.FreeBSD.org?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:53:24PM +0200, Barbara wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:11:35 +0200 (CEST)
> > Barbara <barbara.xxx1975 at libero.it> articulated:
> > 
> >> $ date
> >> Wed Oct 20 01:11:10 CEST 2010
> >> 
> >> # portsnap fetch update
> >> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
> >> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> >> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > 
> > From time to time, "portsnap' does that. It usually remedies itself
> > within 24 hours. Other than being a potential superficial annoyance, I
> > doubt that it causes any serious harm. I have noticed that #5 seems to
> > be the most troublesome server however.
> 
> My only intention was to report that and not complaining about the annoyance.
> I just wanted to alter people maintaining #5.
> If it's "expected", no problem.

I think freebsd-hubs@ is the list where most of the cvsup and portsnap
mirror/owners live.  I'd consider posting concerns there.

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