svn commit: r366186 - in head/usr.sbin: bsdconfig/share/media bsdinstall/scripts

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 2020-09-26 20:12, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> Author: zeising (doc,ports committer)
> >> Date: Sat Sep 26 16:27:09 2020
> >> New Revision: 366186
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366186
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>    bsdconfig, bsdinstall: Prune dead mirrors
> >>    
> >>    Prune dead mirrors from the list of mirrors in bsdconfig and bsdinstall.
> >>    All these return NXDOMAIN when trying to resolve them.
> > 
> > This seems like the wrong place to fix it, as this does
> > nothing for all the "shipped" releases that contain the
> > old values.  Shouldnt these all just be CNAMED in dns
> > to a nearest replacement resource?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Considering that we don't actually have control of the subdomans 
> (CC.freebsd.org) ourselves, that is trickier than it might sound.

How can freebsd.org NOT have ultimate control over deligations?
If things have become "lame" in a deligated zone the deligation
can and should be pulled and replaced with local data.

This is cc.freebsd.org, not freebsd.org.cc!

> I do not oppose that change, but I'm not doing the work to chase all the 
> subdomain DNS admins down to try to fix it.

Nor should you, this should be a clusteradm/domain administration
person that should already working to keep the projects DNS data
up to date and reliable.

> This change cleans out some old mirrors for the 12.2 release, so that 
> people installing 12.2 (and later stuff) won't have the installer 
> complain when they accidentally pick a nonexistent mirror.
> I believe that the proper way to fix this is to just use the FreeBSD CDN 
> even for these downloads (basically, go straight to 
> download.freebsd.org, or at least have that as the preferred option), 
> but I haven't gotten around to that.
> Regards
> -- 
> Niclas Zeising
> 

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org