Continuing problem with "portsnap"

[Jerry]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:48:12 +0000
Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk> articulated:

> On 02/11/2010 13:37, Jerry wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 05:32:44 -0700
> > Rob Farmer <rfarmer at predatorlabs.net> articulated:
> >
> >>
> >> This is a separate issue due to bad DNS - the list of mirrors is
> >> obtained from:
> >>
> >> host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org
> >>
> >> and falls back to just portsnap.freebsd.org if it doesn't work.
> > Results:
> >
> > $ fetch http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/pub.ssl
> > fetch: http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/pub.ssl: No address record
> >
> > $ fetch http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/snapshot.ssl
> > fetch: http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/snapshot.ssl: No address record
> >
> > $ host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> >
> > Yes, I would say that something is broken somewhere, I just am not
> > sure where.
> >
> Sounds like DNS to me.
> what output do you get from
> dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org

$ dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org

; <<>> DiG 9.6.2-P2 <<>> +trace portsnap.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
.			18158	IN	NS	h.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	a.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	d.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	k.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	g.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	i.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	f.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	e.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	j.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	b.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	c.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	l.root-servers.net.
.			18158	IN	NS	m.root-servers.net.
;; Received 228 bytes from 209.18.47.62#53(209.18.47.62) in 10 ms

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

-- 
Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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