Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

Kurt Jaeger pi at opsec.eu
Sat Nov 2 11:37:53 UTC 2013


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.

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