Phillip J. Eby wrote: > I checked what the NetBSD "pkgsrc" system does, and it uses the fact > that there is a .dl.sourceforge.net subdomain for mirrors. I > investigated further and found that dl.sourceforge.net is a round-robin > (or random?) DNS for each of the mirrors in the subdomain, so there's a > simple transformation from the user-visible download pages to the actual > download address. You can see this in the new fix_sf_url() function I > added to setuptools.package_index.
I just got a Connection Refused error, but it worked on the second try. As I remember, the port system typically has a set of links, and frequently fails over from one link to the next, so I expect that this error should be expected. When it is encountered, setuptools should just try again until it works. I have noticed in the past that SF mirrors go up and down quite frequently, probably too fast for DNS to keep up. -- Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
