On Dec 18, 2007 12:08 PM, Charlse Darwin <macports.users@gmail.com> wrote:

$ sudo port install bing
---> Fetching bing
---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http://
www.freenix.org/reseau/
---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http://
svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/bing
---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http://
svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http://
svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/bing
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
$

This isn't the most helpful error message you could have composed, Charlse.

It looks like freenix.org redirects to here ( http://www.usenix.org/events/bytopic/freenix.html)

kitchen:~ paul$ ping freenix.org

PING freenix.org (208.67.219.130): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 208.67.219.130: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time= 64.320 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.219.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=63.792 ms

--- freenix.org ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 63.792/64.056/64.320/0.264 ms

and that www.freenix.org is unreachable.

Connection closed by foreign host.

kitchen:~ paul$ ping www.freenix.org

PING www.freenix.org (194.57.169.110): 56 data bytes

36 bytes from or-angers-nantes.cssi.renater.fr (193.51.182.149): Destination Net Unreachable

Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst

4 5 00 0054 452d 0 0000 30 01 0e4a 192.168.10.226 194.57.169.110

36 bytes from or-angers-nantes.cssi.renater.fr (193.51.182.149): Destination Net Unreachable

Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst

4 5 00 0054 4533 0 0000 30 01 0e44 192.168.10.226 194.57.169.110

36 bytes from or-angers-nantes.cssi.renater.fr (193.51.182.149): Destination Net Unreachable

Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst

4 5 00 0054 4553 0 0000 30 01 0e24 192.168.10.226 194.57.169.110

--- www.freenix.org ping statistics ---

3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

and looking at the port's information, I can find out where the project is based and find out that that server is the same as the unreachable one above.

kitchen:~ paul$ port info bing

bing 1.0.5, net/bing (Variants: universal)

http://www.freenix.fr/freenix/logiciels/bing.html

Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), based on ping. Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link.

and it looks like the project may be dormant.

Subcategory: Bandwidth / Throughput Measurement

bing

URL:	http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/index-en.shtml
Contact:	Author: Pierre Beyssac ( pb @ fasterix.freenix.fr )
Overview:	Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), based on ping. Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link.
Access:	Original page is no longer maintained. A mirror exists for Bing 1.3.5.