Re: Updating Ports on 15.0-RELEASE-p5

I just noticed this message from a couple of weeks ago.  The problem 
might have been transient but ...

On 2026-04-04 19:50:48 (+0800), Washington Odhiambo wrote:
> What's going on here?

It looks like you're getting timeouts because you're talking to a 
pkg.FreeBSD.org mirror very far from where you are.

> pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.conf: Timeout was
> reached
>
> [...]
>
> root@gw:/home/wash # ping pkg.FreeBSD.org
> PING pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org (96.47.72.71): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 96.47.72.71: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=249.443 ms
> 64 bytes from 96.47.72.71: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=248.192 ms
> ^C
> --- pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 248.192/248.817/249.443/0.625 ms
> root@gw:/home/wash # uname -a
> FreeBSD gw.wash.lan 15.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p5
> releng/15.0-n281018-0730d5233286 GENERIC amd64
> root@gw:/home/wash #

It's very odd to see you being sent all the way to New Jersey.  Our 
GeoDNS should be sending you to Fastly infrastructure in Cape Town or 
our mirror in Johannesburg.  Both are still a long way away but 70ms is 
a lot better than 250ms!

Could you tell me your source IP address please?  I can optimise the 
routing.

Asante.

Philip [hat: cluster babysit]