base Failed to connect to mirrors.shu.edu.cn port 443: Connection refused

[msbit (Tom Sullivan)]

When installing multiple packages I'm encountering the error:

Failed to connect to mirrors.shu.edu.cn port 443: Connection refused

The host is referred to in:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/6a33649803e74bbc8808b7420f22fd4afb98fbc1/_resources/port1.0/fetch/archive_sites.tcl#L17
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/2b11a875f3da92fd03c9b8892929a1bcf88ec7fd/_resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl#L210
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/2b11a875f3da92fd03c9b8892929a1bcf88ec7fd/_resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl#L521

I'm unsure whether this is a temporary outage, though the same error is mentioned in:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/4076

from around 17 days ago.

[msbit (Tom Sullivan)]

Output of sudo port install -b ImageMagick

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

See also email thread starting at ​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2019-April/040643.html

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I see you're trying to install ImageMagick in binary-only mode, which won't work because there are no binary archives available for ImageMagick (on any mirror). While there's no point having a mirror that doesn't work in our mirror lists, it also shouldn't prevent you from installing ports, since there are plenty of other mirrors to try. And if you don't use -b it should fall back to installing from source.

[msbit (Tom Sullivan)]

See also email thread starting at ​​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2019-April/040643.html

Ah yep, so it has been reported to the site operator.

I see you're trying to install ImageMagick in binary-only mode, which won't work because there are no binary archives available for ImageMagick (on any mirror).

Makes sense, that was just the last command package installation attempt that I tried, but likely any other invocations with -b also failed at that point for the same reason.

And if you don't use -b it should fall back to installing from source.

+1

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to msbit:

Ah yep, so it has been reported to the site operator.

Yes, but I received no response to my email to them. Maybe their email is down too. I found they have a GitHub project, so I filed a bug report there:

​https://github.com/shuosc/mirrors.shuosc.org/issues/33

It looks like the mirror has been offline since about April 14.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

In 0bb920caa0c93ae5d2668717525e4c50ecbbbf18/macports-ports (master):

mirrors: Remove mirrors.shu.edu.cn

The mirror is down since a couple of weeks and it doesn't seem it's
going to come back for now.

See also: ​https://github.com/shuosc/mirrors.shuosc.org/issues/33

Closes: #58430

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 45bed217f8a268185679c0667375849b0f365210/mpbb (master):

Remove mirrors.shu.edu.cn from blacklist

It was removed from the list because it has down for weeks.

See: #58430