Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 10/31/13 1:10 AM, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote:
> On 31-10-2013 09:05, Beeblebrox wrote:
>> Brian:
>> Please make sure your message gets posted on 
>> http://forums.freebsd.org/ as a
>> general announcement.
>> Also, the DNS records for http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/ does not seem to have
>> flushed-through yet (not working as of 08:00 GMT)
>
> Quoting from Brians excellent email:
>
> "Note that pkg.FreeBSD.org does not have a browsable web page on it 
> and does not have a DNS A record. This is intended as it is an SRV 
> host. pkg(8) knows how to properly use it."
>

That seems to raise the bar for people trying to check connectivity to 
it via ping/telnet.   Is that intentional?

-Alfred