freebsd-update "can't find update.FreeBSD.org"

[RW]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:25:06 -0600
"Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve at hotmail.com> wrote:

> andrew clarke wrote:
> >On Wed 2008-10-29 13:37:11 UTC-0600, Steven Susbauer 
> >(stupendoussteve at hotmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >>freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName
> >>update.FreeBSD.org" is not changed to "ServerName
> >>update1.FreeBSD.org" in /etc/freebsd-update.conf.
> >
> >>thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch
> >>Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> >
> >May be related to this:
> >
> >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-October/183886.html
> >
> Yes it certainly was, my router dnsmasq.conf included filterwin2k,
> which apparently blocks SRV requests. Will remember to keep that off
> in the future.

I think it would still be a good idea to file a PR. 

With portsnap the default server is itself one of the servers on the
SRV list, so portsnap should fall-back to a working server even when 
DNS is unavailable (behind a proxy) or screwed-up by a router etc.

I dont see a reason why update.FreeBSD.org shouldn't have the
same A-record as update1.FreeBSD.org, so that it "just works".