Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Eric Camachat]

browsing www.freebsd.org worked fine.
tried pkg.freebsd.org it got below.
Our DNS server can resolve proxy server only.
Only proxy server can resolve internet sites, this is how our company force
all traffic went through proxy server.

Eric

Network Error (dns_server_failure)

  Your request could not be processed because an error occurred contacting
the DNS server.   The DNS server may be temporarily unavailable, or there
could be a network problem.
If problem persists, please open a ticket with Motorola help desk; and copy
and paste this page in ticket.

Date/Time: 2013-10-31    22:11:37 Request: GET http://pkg.freebsd.org/ Error:
(dns_server_failure) Proxy Name:    proxy
Proxy IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Client IP: zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
Referer URL:



On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 10/31/2013 3:47 PM, Eric Camachat wrote:
> > It doesn't work with our (microsoft) proxy server, see below.
> >
> > root at basay:/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos # pkg update -f
> > Updating repository catalogue
> > pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/digests.txz:
> Service
> > Unavailable
> > pkg: No digest falling back on legacy catalog format
> > pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/repo.txz: Service
> > Unavailable
> > root at basay:/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos #
>
> I somewhat doubt this is a DNS or SRV issue. The pkg(8) client will do
> the DNS lookup and then contact the real server directly. It's more
> likely your proxy is just blocking the requests. Perhaps ask your
> administrator to add an exception for *.freebsd.org:80 :)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bryan Drewery
>
>