boost issue freebsd 8.2 (32 bit) - infinite loop of boost

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 15 Oct 2011, at 19:38, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I identified the problem - the build script insists on fetching boost from
> heanet.dl.sourceforge.net -- for some reason this hangs indefinitely from my
> connection. ie, wget
> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.45.0/boost_1_45_0.tar.bz2resolves
> and connects but never transfers any data. (from my IP however if i
> try it from another network it works..).
> 
> Manually fetching from
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.45.0/boost_1_45_0.tar.bz2
> and putting in /usr/ports/distfiles solves the problem... I'm not sure
> why
> heanet host doesn't like my IP (or something else?)
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway, I noticed I made some typos in my previous email, "34" should have
> been "45". (boost_1_45_0 not boost_1_34_0). late night. lol.
> 
> 
> Waitman
> 


Are you using a proxy ?
Can you try with another IP from the same netblock as you ?
Can you successfully telnet to their IP on port 80 and "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" ?