--exclude-domains was what I was looking for, thanks guys.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2014 16:36:27 Dun Peal wrote:
>> I'm using wget to mirror an old website with all of its
>> --page-requisites. Unfortunately, one of the domains which used to
>> serve some of these requisites - is now offline. Every time wget tries
>> to get anything from that domain, it blocks for 10+ seconds until the
>> connection finally times out.
>>
>> This issue is substantially exacerbated by the 20 retries. I want to
>> keep the default retry count at 20, but I know this one particular
>> domain is never going to respond.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell wget to ignore that domain entirely, i.e. not
>> try to fetch anything from there?
>
> --exclude-domains domain-list
> Specify the domains that are not to be followed.
>
> also, see 'man wget'
>
> Tim
