Problem (again) with portsnap5.FreeBSD.org?

[Royce Williams]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Royce Williams
<royce.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
>> portsnap5 has less weight now and is in fact being used less. My systems
>> are more frequently using other servers now.
>>
>> A few days ago portsnap5 did not respond, anyway in that case portsnap
>> simply timed out and tried another server shortly after.
>
> Not sure if it's related, but portsnap5 is also IPv6 at this writing:
>
> royce at mycroft:~$ for suffix in `seq 1 7`; do host
> portsnap${suffix}.freebsd.org; done
> portsnap1.freebsd.org has address 204.109.56.116
> portsnap2.freebsd.org has address 208.83.221.214
> portsnap3.freebsd.org has address 212.101.4.241
> portsnap4.freebsd.org has address 93.158.155.199
> portsnap5.freebsd.org has address 204.9.55.80
> portsnap5.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4978:1:420::cc09:3750
> portsnap6.freebsd.org has address 149.20.53.40
> portsnap6.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:3:ffe0::40
> Host portsnap7.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
>
> Note also that the update and portsnap servers appear to be relatively
> independent of one another, with only the "5" server sharing the same
> IP:

Er, cut-and-paste error ... sorry; it's early in Alaska ...

royce at mycroft:~$ for suffix in `seq 1 7`; do host
update${suffix}.freebsd.org; done
Host update1.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
update2.freebsd.org has address 149.20.53.40
update2.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:3:ffe0::40
update3.freebsd.org has address 147.229.9.40
update4.freebsd.org has address 209.193.13.98
update5.freebsd.org has address 204.9.55.80
update5.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4978:1:420::cc09:3750
Host update6.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Host update7.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Royce