FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

[Royce Williams]

Aristedes Maniatis wrote, on 1/8/2009 5:12 PM:
> 
> On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
> 
>> 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a
>> different
>> mirror.
> 
> Where can we find a list of mirrors?

This technically answers your question, but may not be very
interesting. ;-)

royce at heffalump$ host -t srv _http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 10 80 update1.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 10 80 update3.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 25 80 update2.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 30 80 update4.FreeBSD.org.


Since it's unlikely that most people need to query the servers via 
some means other than freebsd-update, and since freebsd-update 
automatically pulls its list of mirrors from DNS, this is really only
for the sake of curiosity.  The list of mirrors can change at any 
time, which should be transparent to users of freebsd-update.

It looks like a couple of them are through Voxel's content delivery 
network (CDN).  I think that one of them has been hosted by ISC for
some time.  Since the Voxel ones are 3 and 4, I'm guessing that
they are the newcomers.

royce at heffalump$ host update1.FreeBSD.org
update1.FreeBSD.org has address 72.21.59.252
royce at heffalump$ host 72.21.59.252
252.59.21.72.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 252.59.21.72.static.reverse.ltdomains.com.

royce at heffalump$ host update2.FreeBSD.org
update2.FreeBSD.org has address 149.20.64.41
royce at heffalump$ host 149.20.64.41
41.64.20.149.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer update2.freebsd.org.
royce at heffalump$ whois 149.20.64.41 | grep OrgName
OrgName:    Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

royce at heffalump$ host update3.FreeBSD.org
update3.FreeBSD.org has address 72.26.203.74
royce at heffalump$ host 72.26.203.74
74.203.26.72.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer update3.FreeBSD.org.
royce at heffalump$ whois 72.26.203.74 | grep OrgName
OrgName:    Voxel Dot Net, Inc.

royce at heffalump$ host update4.FreeBSD.org
update4.FreeBSD.org is an alias for content.voxcdn.net.
content.voxcdn.net is an alias for content.loc.voxcdn.net.
content.loc.voxcdn.net is an alias for content.sjc1.site.voxcdn.net.
content.sjc1.site.voxcdn.net has address 208.122.62.226


Royce

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