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Date:      Sat, 2 Nov 2013 12:37:50 +0100
From:      Kurt Jaeger <pi@opsec.eu>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng
Message-ID:  <20131102113750.GG2951@home.opsec.eu>
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Hi!

> On 02/11/2013 10:15, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > I understand from Eric's pist that the issue is that through his
> > limiting proxies, the SRV are not available at all so he does not even
> > get to the point where he could get the pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org
> > <http://pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org>; name back.
> 
> That doesn't make sense.  All the DNS SRV lookups on pkg.freebsd.org are
> done internally to pkg(8),

... which only works, if the DNS server queried answers SRV queries
with SRV values.

Which is not always true, especially in heavily firewalled environments.

-- 
pi@opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         7 years to go !



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