Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:28:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r366186 - in head/usr.sbin: bsdconfig/share/media bsdinstall/scripts Message-ID: <202009261828.08QISIww055941@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <732d6dbb-2d2a-adbf-b587-b6f000b1047e@freebsd.org>
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> On 2020-09-26 20:12, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> Author: zeising (doc,ports committer) > >> Date: Sat Sep 26 16:27:09 2020 > >> New Revision: 366186 > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366186 > >> > >> Log: > >> bsdconfig, bsdinstall: Prune dead mirrors > >> > >> Prune dead mirrors from the list of mirrors in bsdconfig and bsdinstall. > >> All these return NXDOMAIN when trying to resolve them. > > > > This seems like the wrong place to fix it, as this does > > nothing for all the "shipped" releases that contain the > > old values. Shouldnt these all just be CNAMED in dns > > to a nearest replacement resource? > > > > > > Considering that we don't actually have control of the subdomans > (CC.freebsd.org) ourselves, that is trickier than it might sound. How can freebsd.org NOT have ultimate control over deligations? If things have become "lame" in a deligated zone the deligation can and should be pulled and replaced with local data. This is cc.freebsd.org, not freebsd.org.cc! > I do not oppose that change, but I'm not doing the work to chase all the > subdomain DNS admins down to try to fix it. Nor should you, this should be a clusteradm/domain administration person that should already working to keep the projects DNS data up to date and reliable. > This change cleans out some old mirrors for the 12.2 release, so that > people installing 12.2 (and later stuff) won't have the installer > complain when they accidentally pick a nonexistent mirror. > I believe that the proper way to fix this is to just use the FreeBSD CDN > even for these downloads (basically, go straight to > download.freebsd.org, or at least have that as the preferred option), > but I haven't gotten around to that. > Regards > -- > Niclas Zeising > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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