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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:54:06 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Now Available [The references to i386 images and update contexts need to be removed going forward]
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On 11/17/25 14:48, Mark Millard wrote:
> A type of thing that may be odd for now for folks trying to test
> 15.0-RC1 :
> 
> # ping -4 pkgbase.freebsd.org
> ping: cannot resolve pkgbase.freebsd.org: No address associated with name
> 
> # ping -6 pkgbase.freebsd.org
> ping: cannot resolve pkgbase.freebsd.org: Address family for hostname not supported

And yet pkg+https://pkgbase.freebsd.org/ works. :-)

The pkg(8) tool looks up SRV records
> $ host -t srv _https._tcp.pkgbase.freebsd.org
> _https._tcp.pkgbase.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 100 443 cloudfront.aws.pkgbase.freebsd.org.

and that's the real host.  (Right now; we might add other endpoints in the
future.)

-- 
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid




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