[gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

[gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

[Dale]

Howdy,

I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no
longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as
it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is
gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from make.conf so that I
don't run into the problem anymore.  While that likely fixes my problem,
should I reach out to someone and report that that server is no longer
working so it can be either fixed or removed from the lists?  If so,
who/where do I report it?  b.g.o maybe?  This is what I get:


>>> Downloading
'http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/distfiles/layout.conf'
--2020-12-21 07:41:08-- 
http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/distfiles/layout.conf
Resolving gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com... 69.16.168.244
Connecting to gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com|69.16.168.244|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed
out) in headers.
Retrying.

--2020-12-21 07:42:10--  (try: 2) 
http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/distfiles/layout.conf
Connecting to gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com|69.16.168.244|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed
out) in headers.
Retrying.

--2020-12-21 07:43:12--  (try: 3) 
http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/distfiles/layout.conf
Connecting to gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com|69.16.168.244|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed
out) in headers.
Giving up.


I also get this for another server but it could be the file just isn't
there.  It may be a permissions problem on their end tho.  I'm not sure.


--2020-12-21 07:48:00-- 
http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/distfiles/f1/gtkwave-3.3.106.tar.gz
Resolving gentoo.mirrors.tds.net... 216.165.129.134
Connecting to gentoo.mirrors.tds.net|216.165.129.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2020-12-21 07:48:00 ERROR 403: Forbidden.



Thoughts?

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

[Daniel Frey]

On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no
> longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as
> it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is
> gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from make.conf so that I
> don't run into the problem anymore.  While that likely fixes my problem,
> should I reach out to someone and report that that server is no longer
> working so it can be either fixed or removed from the lists?  If so,
> who/where do I report it?  b.g.o maybe?  This is what I get:
> 

I'm sure the infrastructure team would like to be aware of potentially 
malfunctioning servers. If it were me, I'd file a bug and tag it 
Infrastructure somehow so they are aware of it.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

[Dale]

Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no
>> longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as
>> it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is
>> gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from make.conf so that I
>> don't run into the problem anymore.  While that likely fixes my problem,
>> should I reach out to someone and report that that server is no longer
>> working so it can be either fixed or removed from the lists?  If so,
>> who/where do I report it?  b.g.o maybe?  This is what I get:
>>
>
> I'm sure the infrastructure team would like to be aware of potentially
> malfunctioning servers. If it were me, I'd file a bug and tag it
> Infrastructure somehow so they are aware of it.
>
> Dan
>
>

I took the leap and filed one. 

https://bugs.gentoo.org/761106

Maybe it isn't just me.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-)