Our firewall attempts to filter downloads (for virus scanning purpose, or se we are told) more or less transparently : when I use wget, I see a waitong period with on byte per second, then a fast (Ethernet speed)) download of the target file.
IIRC, you evoked the possibility of ICMP-induced trouble during a previous episode of firewall-related trouble. What did you have in mind ? Anyway : any idea to disable this mirror selection ? -- Emmanuel Charpentier Le mardi 16 juin 2015 15:12:31 UTC+2, Volker Braun a écrit : > > The timings are cached (assuming that they find a mirror). > > The timing is based on an actual connection on port 80, no ICMP involved I > think. If your firewall blocks it then it will also block downloads. > > > > On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 2:52:55 PM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> The new all-shiny all-singing all-dancing fastest mirror selection is >> probably useful for large tasks (maybe not so much for small spkgs). I note >> however that it is launced once fopr each package/tarball/item that has to >> be downloaded, not once per job. >> >> Furthermore, behind some firewalls (most notably those that block ICMP), >> this feature is a royal pain in the ass^Hymptote : mirror selection >> failure, hence task failure, hence job failure. Hosed upgrade. >> >> I foud no way to disable this err...feature Defining SAGE_SERVER is >> ignored. >> >> Am I missearching the doc ? Any other idea ? >> >> -- >> Emmanuel Charpentier >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
