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Date:      Sat, 12 May 2012 17:58:15 +0200
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please test geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <4FAE8897.4060305@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20120512151936.1fd3b626@gumby.homeunix.com>
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2012-05-12 16:19, RW skrev:
> On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:16:58 +0200
> Leslie Jensen wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2012-05-12 12:34, Colin Percival skrev:
>>> On 05/12/12 00:22, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>>>> host -t srv _http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org
>>>> ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
>>>> ;; Connection to 172.17.0.1#53(172.17.0.1) for
>>>> _http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org failed: connection refused.
>>>
>>> Ok, you have a broken recursive DNS server configuration.
>>>
>>> I'll have A records as a fallback for situations like this where
>>> SRV can't be used.
>>>
>>
>> What exactly does that mean? The IP-address is my home router that
>> acts as a caching DNS for my network. The router in turn uses my
>> ISP's DNS.
>>
>> So if there is a configuration issue I'll be willing to drop a letter
>> to my ISP in order to get it fixed.
>
> Probably your router doesn't support SRV records, try putting external
> servers in resolv.conf.
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Well I had to read up on configuring dhclient.conf

After adding

prepend domain-name-servers y.y.y.y, x.x.x.x;

To my /etc/dhclient.conf

I now get the following and it looks to me as it works :-)


host -t srv _http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 4 10 80 
ap-southeast-1.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 10 80 
geodns-1.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 2 10 80 
geodns-2.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 3 10 80 
geodns-3.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 4 10 80 
isc.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 4 10 80 
your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 4 10 80 
ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 4 10 80 
ec2-sa-east-1.portsnap.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org has SRV record 4 10 80 
ap-northeast-1.portsnap.freebsd.org.



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