package-refresh-contents successfully checks against elpa.gnu.org and orgmode.org repos. When it comes to melpa, it just hangs at contacting host.

It works in 24.3. It used to work with nightly snapshots. Not sure exactly when it stopped working, but it also failed on 24.3.91.

It fails with our without the keepalives nil setting.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.92.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.20)

 of 2014-06-27 on builder10-9.porkrind.org

Configured using:

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Important settings:

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Recent input:

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Recent messages:

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