Access to detailed status info on package build servers

[Simon Wright]

On 14/04/2021 2:46 pm, Ronald Klop wrote:
> Van: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com>
> Datum: 14 april 2021 08:31
> Aan: Simon Wright <simon.wright at gmx.net>
> CC: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
> Onderwerp: Re: Access to detailed status info on package build servers
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:02 PM Simon Wright <simon.wright at gmx.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> >
>> > I use a script to pull down this file:
>> >
>> > http://beefy6.nyi.freebsd.org/data/122amd64-default/.data.json
>> >
>> > and extract the builds.latest field from it for the jail. Since the
>> move
>> > to git I can no longer access this file. Curl fails with an error 7
>> > which is a permission denied error.
>> >
>> > Simon Wright.
>> >
>> This is likely not your problem, but Is it possible that you have an IPv6
>> issue? As of a few days ago, beefy6 is IPv6 only. For me, it means no
>> access unless I bring up a tunnel as Frontier does not support IPv6. Next
>> week I'll be moving to Comcast and that will fix the problem. Since it
>> appears that Frontier has no plans to ever support IPv6 on fiber, or at
>> least not for several years, I guess an HE tunnel is the only fix if I
>> want
>> 500 Mbps FIOS.
>
> If it is because of ipv6 you can also wrap the url in a service like
> http://www.ipv6proxy.net/
> I use that sometimes to access the pkg servers.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ronald

Thanks Kevin and Roland, this is an ipv6 issue, wrapping the URL in the
proxy that Ronald suggested works fine. I know that Globe in Philippines
has only just been dragged screaming into the 20th century so I imagine
that the 21st century is still some way off :).

Thanks again for the guidance. I will escalate this with Globe and see
whether there is a real solution in the offing, otherwise I'd better get
used to more work-arounds in the future.