Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Matthew Seaman]

On 02/11/2013 11:37, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> On 02/11/2013 10:15, Matthias Andree wrote:
>>> I understand from Eric's pist that the issue is that through his
>>> limiting proxies, the SRV are not available at all so he does not even
>>> get to the point where he could get the pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org
>>> <http://pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org> name back.
>>
>> That doesn't make sense.  All the DNS SRV lookups on pkg.freebsd.org are
>> done internally to pkg(8),
> 
> ... which only works, if the DNS server queried answers SRV queries
> with SRV values.
> 
> Which is not always true, especially in heavily firewalled environments.

I feel no obligation to do anything to encourage people that
deliberately break the DNS.  They've made their bed, and now they have
to lie in it.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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