On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Barry Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Franks
>> Sent: 07 October 2008 21:57
>
>> I've googled high & low but I cannot find much other that "this cannot
>> happen" replies.  I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386.  The amd64
>> hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march.  The i386 I
>> just installed, and it portsnap's fine, so it's not a firewall or
>> related issue.  I've checked my key and it looks ok.  What am I
>> missing?
>>
>> Best,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> dystant# portsnap fetch
>> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done.
>> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
>> Updating from Mon Mar  3 07:50:14 MST 2008 to Tue Oct  7
>> 12:43:25 MST 2008.
>> Fetching 0 metadata patches. done.
>> Applying metadata patches... done.
>> Fetching 0 metadata files... done.
>> Fetching 12365 patches.. done.
>> Applying patches... done.
>> Fetching 13708 new ports or files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open
>> e53d7ea3f6fbc2e6a87a1f194ea623fc6b27c74d9aecfd61e0d765e86d861ad5.gz:
>> No such file or directory
>> snapshot is corrupt.
>> dystant#
>
> Steve:
>
> Are you using a proxy server? If so this could be perhaps the proxy server
> not fully supporting HTTP/1.1 persistent
> connections. Can you try this:
>
>  sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized=0
>  portsnap fetch update
>

Well, I can't say for sure if that works.  I'm definitely behind a
ugly cheap-o windows firewall (iserver), but sometimes it works, and
sometimes not...can't hurt, though, right?

Best,
Steve
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