From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NrCkR-0001Pn-50 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:02:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52E77E08FA; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9BFE08FA for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so247477pwj.40 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:01:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=6vbZcYJQ+c3STyUAfJwzI8ss9mIWpMyUPnjtwTVyFRU=; b=xziC7CPrROcAbLEOCD3XSPZER9Ji54yHQSAApjtwTe6V9kJmddr3YXauM25H0M0syf HUhOgL8BSZMlwjapcinaVKWmWfHfp+KZiQ/u0qvWFy6o5lschUp8uBvZCjiusHOmNrXx lueJf9JNG5akT2o3Mcr/lwMipxlmcrku4QSD8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=CEKGqHtqZ2AK2BFCzv6sNeeFV6CL59pwX68kRq6Pc3lrrr2cOm3BqmyLWMEZdqcbn3 8ZyvPFASHEfQ4qmmBztqKiQFqSG8MmDQW6k2OZpDotBqfV2lwZ7YwPriPNGIo/A7PJFF clk5ztPrk/JeeDWwvvYsdRE9rU3raugI0euF8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.208.12 with SMTP id f12mr355688wfg.128.1268668910884; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:01:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201003151010.52864.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <4B9BE435.4040406@gmail.com> <4B9D9F28.6080609@fire-eyes.org> <201003151010.52864.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:01:50 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c32d80176c253381 Message-ID: <58965d8a1003150901q2015a3f0g44efae8d936cbccd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 213ba009-1453-4c69-9fa8-c75b801c7daa X-Archives-Hash: 9ca022f49d809c1cd86adbf3e24c022d On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: > >> Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. > > I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is > the Irish server in the pool - it wouldn't be enough to go for a cuppa > while it's running; I'd have to come back tomorrow if I let it continue > at its own pace*. So I watch the beginning of --sync and if I get that > server I kill it and try again. There was a distfiles mirror that would always hang and timeout for me, so I added it to my hosts file with a bogus IP so it just fails instantly and tries a different server. Maybe you could do the same for the server that's bothering you, then you won't have to worry about it.