portsnap can't access portsnap[124].freebsd.org

[Scott Bennett]

     On Sat, 30 May 2009 12:30:05 +0100 RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:05:44 +1000
>John Marshall <john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Have you excluded local factors (proxy servers, firewalls)? 
>
>Try fetching the key manually
>
>fetch  http://portsnap2.FreeBSD.org/pub.ssl
>
     I really suspect that http_proxy having been set to localhost.:8118 with
nothing listening on 8118 was very likely the problem.  portmaster is still
rebuilding stuff, so I'll have to wait a while to try running portsnap again
without http_proxy.  If it still doesn't work at that point, I'll try your
suggestion above.
     Thank you very much.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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