Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:38:07 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r366186 - in head/usr.sbin: bsdconfig/share/media bsdinstall/scripts Message-ID: <58A46C41-07DE-41F4-A3F9-668035347D8B@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <202009262324.08QNOjbQ056906@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <202009262324.08QNOjbQ056906@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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> On Sep 26, 2020, at 5:24 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> w= rote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BF >>=20 >>=20 >>>> On Sep 26, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> I am the wrong person to answer that question. >>>=20 >>> In this case, things have not become lame. For instance, the names=20 >>> ervers for se.freebsd.org work fine, but ftp3.se and ftp6.se records are= =20 >>> removed. Same for ru.freebsd.org and ftp4.ru. >>> I'm merely pointing out that changing ftp.CC.freebsd.org usually=20 >>> requires contacting the person(s) maintaining the CC.freebsd.org zone,=20= >>> which is usually not the project. >>>=20 >>> It's usually people associated with the project in some way, but who mig= ht not be as responsive as cluster admin. These domains have been delegated,= so we have to get the delegated admin to make the changes, which can take a= bit of time to chase down and doesn't lend itself to easy / automated copin= g with this situation. >>>=20 >>=20 >> Just a spitball idea here, but maybe we should consider not embedding the= se lists of mirror URLs into the binaries. It seems pretty straight-forward= that the list evolves over time, and that evolution is not tightly coupled w= ith the updating of the binaries. It sounds like the pkg and freebsd-update= infrastructure use DNS TXT and/or SRV records to point to the metadata need= ed to construct a mirror URL list dynamically. Maybe something similar can b= e done for bsdconfig? If it?s not a crazy idea, is there anyone who would b= e interested in helping me write a proposal over at arch@? >=20 > 100% behind that idea! Especially since it seems the project has lost > (some) control over its DNS space, which IMHO, is still an issue, if > the people whom DNS zones have been deligated to are not responsive > that should also=20 Words of agreement don=E2=80=99t help at the moment, though i appreciate you= r enthusiasm. Would you he able to help write a proposal for the arch@ mail= ing list? Thanks, Scott=
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