OpenIndiana Distribution

Hi,

Firstly i applaud what the community is doing with Solaris, i downloaded Oracle Solaris Express 11 and found it very buggy and unable to update reposititories without a costly support license from Oracle.

I am trying to update my system to the latest versions of installed packages, as well as determine what is in my system.

I am getting timeout's when using the package manager.

Preparing...
Ensuring Update Manager is up to date...
Refreshing catalog openindiana.org
Finished refreshing catalog openindiana.org

Error:
Catalog refresh error:
Only 0 out of 1 catalogs successfully updated.
Unable to contact valid package repository
Encountered the following error(s):
Unable to contact any configured publishers.
This is likely a network configuration problem.
Framework error: code: 28 reason: Connection time-out
URL: 'http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev'. (happened 4 times)

if i ping pkg.openindiana.org from within openindiana, i get:

ICMP Host Unreachable from gateway gi6-0-2.cor1.per2.internode.on.net (150.101.0.158)

However if i ping from a windows machine on my network i get mixed results:

1. Successful connection to host

C:\Users\sas>ping pkg.openindiana.org

Pinging pkg-origin.openindiana.org [91.194.74.166] with
Reply from 91.194.74.166: bytes=32 time=274ms TTL=245
Reply from 91.194.74.166: bytes=32 time=273ms TTL=245
Reply from 91.194.74.166: bytes=32 time=276ms TTL=245
Reply from 91.194.74.166: bytes=32 time=273ms TTL=245

2. Timeout

C:\Users\sas>ping pkg.openindiana.org

Pinging pkg.openindiana.org [42.1.5.48] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

3. Timeout
C:\Users\sas>ping pkg.openindiana.org

Pinging pkg.openindiana.org [42.1.5.48] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 150.101.0.158: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 150.101.0.158: Destination host unreachable.
Request timed out.
Reply from 150.101.0.158: Destination host unreachable.

I have tried to change package manager to use another mirror site which appears more stable, however package manager always attempts to talk to the main repository of pkg.openindiana.org/dev and hence i cannot add the new mirror.

thanks