what's up with portsnap?

[Colin Percival]

r17fbsd at xxiii.com wrote:
> # portsnap fetch
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
> Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Thu May 10 10:42:40 EDT 2007
> to Mon Apr 16 10:17:39 EDT 2007.

That's really strange.  And it doesn't happen for me.

Is it possible that you have a misbehaving proxy which is caching
a month-old snapshot?

Colin Percival