[mythtv-users] channel icon download fails

[Mike Perkins]

Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:48 AM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I try to download channel icons via mythtv-setup I am getting the
>>>> following errors ...
>>>>
>>>> 2010-06-27 14:38:07.482 HttpComms::Timeout for url:
>>>> http://lyngsat-logo.com/logo/tv/aa/ae_us.jpg
>>>> 2010-06-27 14:38:07.501 Server returned an error status code 0 for url:
>>>> http://lyngsat-logo.com/logo/tv/aa/ae_us.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Navigating to the link in a browser works fine.
>>>>
> OK, here's the scoop.  It seems that the URLs we fetch from return a 301
> (Permanent Redirect).  This means we hit the server twice.  That's normally
> OK, *BUT* mythtv-setup doesn't cache DNS lookups, so it is hitting your DNS
> resolver (as setup by /etc/resolv.conf) repeatedly.  IF your DNS lookups are
> slow, it takes forever, and the logo download will exceed the 10s which
> seems to be the default timeout in the code.
> 
> So...  I am considering changing the timeout to 20s, but additionally, use
> faster DNS servers.  If you are up for running your own caching server, that
> will likely be the best over-all, but otherwise, you are likely best off
> pointing /etc/resolv.conf to google's public DNS caches (8.8.8.8 and
> 8.8.4.4).
> 
Since there are significant numbers of Myth users hitting these icons, is it 
worth either mythtv.org or Schedules Direct (or similar) mirroring these files? 
Or would that make the Gods of Copyright/Trademarks/Patents/Whatever very angry?

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Mike Perkins