troubles getting ports index

[Dave]

Hi,
    Thanks for your reply. I was thinking that, does make fetchindex get 
it's server information off of the cvsup settings?
thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>
To: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: troubles getting ports index


> "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>    Is anyone else having difficulties getting the ports index? I do:
>>
>> cd /usr/ports
>> make fetchindex
>>
>> and the download speed is so slow that it eventually halts and i get
>> an error about the file being truncated. This has been occurring all
>> day today on several machines and i'm starting to wonder if it's
>> something local or an issue with the server i'm pulling from?
>
> The obvious test would be to try a different server...