Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:22:44 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-announce@freebsd.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] portsnapN.freebsd.org DNS entries are going away Message-ID: <50589FD4.5060906@freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, If your /etc/portsnap.conf file has "SERVERNAME=portsnap.FreeBSD.org" (the default), you can stop reading now; this does not affect you. For many years, the FreeBSD Portsnap mirrors have had hostnames of "portsnapN.freebsd.org" for various values of N. Due to recent changes in both the set of mirrors I manage and the way that Portsnap DNS is organized, the official mirror names are now all in the form "mirrorname.portsnap.freebsd.org" for various values of "mirrorname". I am in the process of shutting down old mirrors, and in the near future I will be removing all of the old-style DNS records. If you have "SERVERNAME=XX.portsnap.FreeBSD.org" for XX equal to "us", "eu", or "ru", you don't need to do anything; but the "XX." prefix is no longer necessary, since Portsnap's geolocated DNS will send you to a nearby mirror without needing you to specify your region in the DNS name. If you have "SERVERNAME=portsnapN.FreeBSD.org" for some value of N, you will find that portsnap stops working until you remove the the N value. As with the "XX." prefixes the original advantage of doing this (making sure that you're hitting a nearby mirror) no longer exists. - -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBYn9QACgkQOM7KaQxqam6qWQCgv8S8nPAN4FBx0bqI3DlHNwmJ e+0An3m42F44TxhRkOnx1RkOJ/sIA0h4 =Yk/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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