From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 8 03:06:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA07405 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 03:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA07399 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 03:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 11018 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Jun 1997 10:05:57 +0000 (GMT) To: rb@gid.co.uk Cc: ortmann@sparc.isl.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS for freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 8 Jun 1997 10:25:39 +0100" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 12:05:57 +0200 Message-ID: <11016.865764357@verdi.nethelp.no> 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. There is already one freebsd.org name server outside the US: ns.gnome.co.uk. Unfortunately it is not listed in the delegation from .org, and thus doesn't really help much. If there is any interest, I'd be happy to run a secondary for freebsd.org at snipp.uninett.no. This is a very stable and well-connected host (it has a minimum of 34 Mbit/s all the way from its position in Oslo, Norway to the US). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no