From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImZNz-0002wQ-Di for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:30:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9TISopo009195; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:28:50 GMT Received: from alnrmhc15.comcast.net (alnrmhc15.comcast.net [204.127.225.95]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9TISneA009185 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:28:50 GMT Received: from iwillxp333 (c-71-226-99-102.hsd1.sc.comcast.net[71.226.99.102]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc15) with SMTP id <20071029182848b1500ov0fpe>; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:28:48 +0000 Message-ID: <003401c81a59$630f0780$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> From: "Drake Donahue" To: References: <200710291508.41393.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> <200710291615.40211.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --sync failed Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:27:36 -0400 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Archives-Salt: 62e2e987-5e0d-4a7c-8b2b-9370e30f115e X-Archives-Hash: cf9663a3b5cb575534fe7d26f387d752 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stear" To: Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --sync failed > On Monday 29 October 2007, Beso wrote: >> please use names and not ip addresses!!!! remove 64.127.121.98 and add >> in its place rsync.gentoo.org. the rsync server rotates so the simple >> ip might not work. >> remove it and use rsync.gentoo.org and use that. >> and try not rsyncing more than once per 24hours or you can be temporary >> banned!!!! >> > > I am not using ip addresses. (I think). I thought that rsync reads the > mirror sites from make.conf, this is mine. > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ > ftp://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ > ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo > http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" > Would rsync itself be using ip addresses? the line ">>> Starting rsync with rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage... " is produced after dns resolution so yes it is. mirror choices 1 and 4 above are currently dead when I try them, choices 2 and 3 are responding to my browser. Suggest you remove the GENTOO_MIRRORS=" line from /etc/make.conf If there is a lot of turbulence in the rsync servers near you, your mirror select choices and/or your dns cache values may be overtaken by events and be invalid today although good yesterday. > thanks > Paul > > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list