Re: pkg DNS issue

From: Paul Vixie <paul_at_redbarn.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 05:31:10 UTC 
I see no srv records here.
Paul Vixie

Jul 11, 2025 22:14:00 Maku Bex <zagazaw2004@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
> 
> Does pkg's geo-dns not like Quand9's DNS? The download speed is capped under 65KB/s and the reason for my question is that this has happened a few times in the past to other users.
> 
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-is-hella-slow-not-internet-speed.84882/
> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2037
> https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1707oi8/help_pkg_is_slow_packages_are_downloading_in_50kbs/
> ...
> 
> As for this notice "IMPORTANT: We do NOT guarantee uptime of any particular mirror. We provide SRV fallbacks for redundancy." The SRV doesn't seem to do anything, at least in my case.
> 
> Some technical info:
> 
> uname -a: FreeBSD  14.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE releng/14.3-n271432-8c9ce319fef7 GENERIC amd64
> 
> pkg --version: 2.2.1
> 
> cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> 
> FreeBSD: {
>     url: "https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest",
>     enabled: true,
>     signature_type: "fingerprints",
>     fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>     mirror_type: "srv"
> }
> 
> drill pkg.freebsd.org
> 
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 20313
> ;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;; pkg.freebsd.org. IN  A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> pkg.freebsd.org.    300 IN  CNAME   pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org.
> pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org. 150 IN  A   173.228.147.98
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> 
> ;; Query time: 294 msec
> ;; SERVER: 149.112.112.112
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jul 11 23:49:16 2025
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 74