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Date:      Fri, 29 May 2009 23:48:26 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>
To:        glen.j.barber@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portsnap can't access portsnap[124].freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <200905300448.n4U4mQnp028317@mp.cs.niu.edu>

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     On Fri, 29 May 2009 22:17:25 -0400 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>[snip]
>
>
>>
>> Script started on Fri May 29 19:33:32 2009
>> hellas# portsnap fetch
>> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>> Fetching public key from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> Fetching public key from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> Fetching public key from portsnap4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>> hellas# exit
>> exit
>>
>> Script done on Fri May 29 19:33:46 2009
>>
>> =A0 =A0 Can anyone tell me what the problem is? =A0Is some portsnap servi=
>ce not
>> operational at freebsd.org currently for some reason? =A0Is the up-to-dat=
>e
>> portsnap trying to reach the wrong systems?
>
>[snip]
>
>Scott,
>
>I was able to do a 'fetch' using portsnap a little over an hour ago,
>as well as just now (10:15PM EDT).  I successfully fetched from
>'portsnap2'.
>
>Can you paste the 'ANSWER SECTON' from:
>
>  'dig portsnap2.freebsd.org'
>
     Sure, but I'm curious to know why.  The names all do resolve to A RRs,
and pings to each by name did get echos back.  Here it is, although I did
terminate the domain name by habit.  Surely portsnap must not be so silly
as to pass unterminated names to the resolver.  (Actually, I'm including
the whole output, not just the answer section.)


; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P2 <<>> portsnap2.freebsd.org. a
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59849
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;portsnap2.freebsd.org.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
portsnap2.freebsd.org.	3600	IN	A	72.21.59.250

;; Query time: 41 msec
;; SERVER: 68.87.72.130#53(68.87.72.130)
;; WHEN: Fri May 29 23:37:03 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 55

     I also just now tried a "portsnap fetch" again and got the same
result as before.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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