Bug 279316 – distfiles.gentoo.org appears to be down.

• Product: Mirrors
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Dakota 2009-07-27 12:14:27 UTC]

When trying to connect to distfiles.gentoo.org, I repeatedly get error 506. (Cannot connect to server.)

Then trying "isitdownforeveryoneorjustme", they say the page looks down too.

tldr: distfiles.gentoo.org looks borked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export GENTOO_MIRRORS="distfiles.gentoo.org"
2. emerge -v anyexistingebuild

Actual Results:  
>>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/ccsm-0.8.2.tar.bz2'
--2009-07-27 08:06:19--  http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/ccsm-0.8.2.tar.bz2
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 130.239.17.6
Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|130.239.17.6|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 506 Failure To Connect To Web Server
2009-07-27 08:06:22 ERROR 506: Failure To Connect To Web Server.


Expected Results:  
Should've connected to the server.

Since there are so many mirrors, it's not an outrageous bug, but the official distfiles mirror _should_ work.

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2009-07-27 20:37:41 UTC]

Error 506 ONLY comes from proxies. So you're behind a broken one, probably transparently.

# telnet 130.239.17.6 80
Trying 130.239.17.6...
Connected to 130.239.17.6.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /distfiles/ccsm-0.8.2.tar.bz2 HTTP/1.1
Host: distfiles.gentoo.org

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:36:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Fedora)
Location: http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/ccsm-0.8.2.tar.bz2
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1