FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 8 22:54:14 PST 2009


Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> 
> On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
> 
>> 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a 
>> different
>> mirror.
> 
> Where can we find a list of mirrors?

The list of is distributed via DNS SRV records:
# host -t srv _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
prints a list of the mirrors (currently update1 through update4, but that
is subject to change).

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Colin Percival
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