Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Freddie Cash]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Eric Camachat <eric.camachat at gmail.com>wrote:

> browsing www.freebsd.org worked fine.
> tried pkg.freebsd.org it got below.
> Our DNS server can resolve proxy server only.
> Only proxy server can resolve internet sites, this is how our company force
> all traffic went through proxy server.
>
> Eric
>
> Network Error (dns_server_failure)
>
>   Your request could not be processed because an error occurred contacting
> the DNS server.   The DNS server may be temporarily unavailable, or there
> could be a network problem.
> If problem persists, please open a ticket with Motorola help desk; and copy
> and paste this page in ticket.
>
> Date/Time: 2013-10-31 22:11:37 Request: GET http://pkg.freebsd.org/ Error:
> (dns_server_failure) Proxy Name:    proxy
> Proxy IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Client IP: zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
> Referer URL:
>

​So, then manually specific a specific pkg mirror and by-pass the DNS SRV
record resolution step.​


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Freddie Cash
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