boost issue freebsd 8.2 (32 bit) - infinite loop of boost
Damien Fleuriot
ml at my.gd
Mon Oct 17 00:19:26 UTC 2011
On 16 Oct 2011, at 03:35, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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" ?
>>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not using a proxy, however it is possible that ISP has a transparent
> cache/proxy. (at&t)
>
> Maybe I could release IP and request another one? I'm not sure it's worth it
> though.. (?) I was able to get the file from another host (manually) and
> continue without further issues..
>
> telnet to port 80 connects but doesn't respond to HEAD request from this
> machine.
>
That's really odd, you should try releasing your current IP and get assigned a new one, just for curiosity's sake.
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