Re: pkg DNS issue

From: Maku Bex <zagazaw2004_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:29:00 UTC 
Elaborate.

Paul Vixie wrote:
> 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
>