Bug 20240

Summary: Update port: net/netcat has bogus master-sites [PATCH]
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Peter Pentchev <roam>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: David E. O'Brien <obrien>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Peter Pentchev 2000-07-28 11:10:01 UTC
The netcat port lists several MASTER_SITES, but only one of those seems
functional.

From the Makefile:
MASTER_SITES=   ftp://avian.org/src/hacks/  \
                ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/mirrors/avian.org/netcat/  \
		ftp://zippy.telcom.arizona.edu/pub/mirrors/avian.org/hacks/  \
		ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mirrors/avian.org/src/hacks/  \
		ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/security/coast/mirrors/avian.org/netcat/

However..

[roam@ringwraith ~]$ ftp
ftp> o avian.org
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> o coast.cs.purdue.edu
Connected to kargad.cerias.purdue.edu.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
ftp> o zippy.telecom.arizona.edu
ftp: zippy.telcom.arizona.edu: No address associated with hostname
ftp> o ftp.sterling.com
ftp: connect: Operation timed out
ftp> o ftp.rge.com
Connected to web.rge.com.
220 FTP server ready.
Name (ftp.rge.com:roam): ^Cftp>
ftp>

OK, so the last one works ;) (I'd be surprised if ftp.rge.com was down..)

Fix: A quick websearch on nc110.tgz finds it on l0pht's website (www.l0pht.com),
with a text by Weld which sounds almost like an author/maintainer's speech.

I'm not really clear on who's netcat's author - the Hobbit within all
the source's comments, or l0pht's Weld - or even whether they are one and
the same person..  Still, l0pht's site seems a good master-site candidate.
How-To-Repeat: 
cd /usr/ports/net/netcat; make fetch
Comment 1 Chris D.Faulhaber freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-08-02 00:57:58 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports->obrien

Over to maintainer
Comment 2 David E. O'Brien freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-11-11 06:03:37 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

committed.  thanks for the PR !