Grant Edwards wrote: > Is there any way for me to "blacklist" a pool rsync server so that > emerge --sync won't try to use it? > > I'm using the sync-url rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage, but > one of the pool's servers is barely usable for me. I don't know if > it's a server problem or if traffic between my and that server is > routed through a Mars orbiter. When any other server is chosen, the > file list scrolls by faster than you can read it. Via the Mars > orbibiter the list ticks by about one file every 5-10 seconds. It > will usually finish (eventually), but sometimes hangs and times out. > It's been like for at least a year or two. > > [FWIW, I'm uable to ping the server, and tracroute is unable to produce > a route to it. However, I can telnet to the rsync port on that host > and it connects.] > > When I see that server has been selected, I usually just hit Ctrl-C > and try again. > > Is there any way to configure portage to not use that server? >
Is it possible to add it to your hosts file and point it to local IP? Obviously, if it is a numbered IP then this likely won't work. Dale :-) :-)
