portsnap mirror servers

[Yousef Raffah]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 10:19 -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> Paul Mather wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:40 +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> >> Hm, but I see a quite noticeable speed difference between portsnap1 and 
> >> portsnap2. The second one is quite a bit faster.
> 
> I'll look into this over the summer.
> 
> > I notice that on 4.x portsnap never finds any mirrors because the grep
> > of the output returned by "host -t srv ..." is not appropriate for 4.x's
> > version of /usr/bin/host, which produces output different to that of 5.x
> > onwards (a BIND8 vs BIND9 issue, I guess).  So, maybe because of this,
> > all of the portsnaps running on 4.x machines are hitting the same server
> > each time instead of randomly choosing a mirror, thereby causing that
> > mirror to be a bit more loaded?
> 
> They are hitting the same server, but that server is portsnap2 (which is
> also portsnap.daemonology.net, which is the default server for pre-1.0
> versions of portsnap from the ports tree).  Given that most systems running
> portsnap are FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, this doesn't cause much differential
> loading.
> 
Not sure if this is offtopic but I always had problems with portsnap and
it never worked for me, therefore, I dumped it for cvsup.

Here is what I get:
# portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching snapshot tag... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Tue Apr 18 03:16:17 AST 2006 to Sat Apr 22 14:30:08 AST
2006.
Fetching 4 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 4 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open
22d2106522d8940cbe1385cae5dd831e247ce85793d0423f367656ed0dfda82d.gz: No
such file or directory
metadata is corrupt.

I'm using 6.1-RC built on Apr 18 but that problem was there even on
6.0-RELEASE
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