From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 8 02:43:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA06912 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 02:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA06904 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 02:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id KAA20806; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 10:29:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 10:28:50 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199706071643.LAA00966@watcher.isl.net> References: from Bob Bishop at "Jun 7, 97 07:45:03 am" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 10:25:39 +0100 To: Daniel Ortmann From: Bob Bishop Subject: DNS for freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 17:43 +0100 7/6/97, Daniel Ortmann wrote [in -current]: >I ran a host command getting freebsd.org sites and auto-built a >set of [ -f src-cur.2909.gz ] || fetch commands with it, thinking >that this would be an efficient way to find it. (It didn't find it.) > >The odd thing that I discovered that a large number of the foreign >freebsd addresses could not be found. > >Why is that? Is there a pervasive problem with DNS's? I have suspected this for a while, but I'm not really sure why. Possibly having a couple of secondaries for freebsd.org outside of N America would help. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK