Re: Updating Ports on 15.0-RELEASE-p5

> On Apr 22, 2026, at 1:27 AM, Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2026-04-22 16:20:09 (+0800), Philip Paeps wrote:
>> You could also work around this with another forward-zone block for geo.FreeBSD.org that points to a DNS server that sends us client information, e.g.:
>> 
>> forward-zone:
>>  name: .
>>  forward-tls-upstream: yes
>>  forward-first: yes
>>  forward-addr: 9.9.9.11@53 #quad9 with ECS
> 
> Sorry, this should have been:
> 
> forward-zone:
>   name: geo.FreeBSD.org
>   forward-tls-upstream: yes
>   forward-first: yes
>   forward-addr: 9.9.9.11@53 #quad9 with ECS
> 
> I.e. send all your queries to Cloudflare except for queries for geo.FreeBSD.org - send those to Quad9 with ECS instead.

I wanted to jump in and point out that since dayjob often sets up weird BSD boxes in odd corners of the world, we've found it useful to throw something together to find the fastest mirror, with no system dependencies on any ports.

https://github.com/thegushi/fastest-pkg.sh

(There is a similar python-based tool in ports, but that requires...being able to fetch packages).

-Dan