ports - ignore hosts that aren't responding?

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Friday 31 December 2004 06:14 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> I've tried to install several ports that rely on gnu.org over the
> past several days, and the first THREE attempts timeout.  Here's one
> example:
>
> => Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/.
> fetch: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2:
> Operation timed out
>
> => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/.
> fetch: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2:
> Operation timed out
>
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gnu/coreutils/. fetch:
> http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2:
> Operation timed out
>
> => Attempting to fetch from http://gnu.mirror.mcgill.ca/coreutils/.
>
> Is there a way I can tell 'make' to (at least temporarily) not even
> try to connect to the first 3?
>
> TjL

Probably there is a better solution but I've had good results by
adding:

RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES=yes

to /etc/make.conf

-Mike