From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 14:54:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE2C106566B for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526CA8FC17 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman-macbooklocal.local (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oA2EsaHf042116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:54:36 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4CD0262C.6050309@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:54:36 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20101102073440.5b7f6e74@scorpio> <4CCFF82A.8080905@unsane.co.uk> <4CCFF983.4020005@eskk.nu> <20101102082136.34dfd94d@scorpio> <20101102093707.60a2bd0c@scorpio> <4CD0169C.5070207@unsane.co.uk> <20101102103338.13e556ff@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20101102103338.13e556ff@scorpio> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Continuing problem with "portsnap" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:54:39 -0000 On 02/11/2010 14:33, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:48:12 +0000 > Vincent Hoffman articulated: > >> >> Sounds like DNS to me. >> what output do you get from >> dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org > $ dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org > > ; <<>> DiG 9.6.2-P2 <<>> +trace portsnap.freebsd.org > ;; global options: +cmd > . 18158 IN NS h.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS a.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS d.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS k.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS g.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS i.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS f.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS e.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS j.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS b.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS c.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS l.root-servers.net. > . 18158 IN NS m.root-servers.net. > ;; Received 228 bytes from 209.18.47.62#53(209.18.47.62) in 10 ms > > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > Hmm you should be seeing something like jhary@ostracod (13:48:49 <~>) 0 $ dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org ; <<>> DiG 9.6.2-P2 <<>> +trace portsnap.freebsd.org ;; global options: +cmd . 424412 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS k.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS b.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS j.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 424412 IN NS e.root-servers.net. ;; Received 332 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 1 ms org. 172800 IN NS d0.org.afilias-nst.org. org. 172800 IN NS c0.org.afilias-nst.info. org. 172800 IN NS b0.org.afilias-nst.org. org. 172800 IN NS a2.org.afilias-nst.info. org. 172800 IN NS b2.org.afilias-nst.org. org. 172800 IN NS a0.org.afilias-nst.info. ;; Received 440 bytes from 128.8.10.90#53(d.root-servers.net) in 125 ms freebsd.org. 86400 IN NS ns3.isc-sns.info. freebsd.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.isc-sns.com. freebsd.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.isc-sns.net. ;; Received 126 bytes from 2001:500:b::1#53(c0.org.afilias-nst.info) in 69 ms portsnap.freebsd.org. 3600 IN A 204.109.56.116 freebsd.org. 3600 IN NS ns1.isc-sns.net. freebsd.org. 3600 IN NS ns3.isc-sns.info. freebsd.org. 3600 IN NS ns2.isc-sns.com. ;; Received 246 bytes from 2001:5a0:10::1#53(ns3.isc-sns.info) in 47 ms It should recurse through the DNS hierarchy, starting at the servers for . then the servers for org then the servers for freebsd and finally give you a result. I guess this means either you or your ISP is filtering access on port 53 other than to their severs, or else your ISP has a connectivity issue. can you currently resolve any .org domains? (netbsd.org or openbsd.org or apache.org spring to mind) Vince