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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 1997 10:25:39 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Daniel Ortmann <ortmann@sparc.isl.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   DNS for freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <l03020901afc0279ec279@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <199706071643.LAA00966@watcher.isl.net>
References:  <l03020905afbeb34be9b2@[194.32.164.2]> from Bob Bishop at "Jun 7, 97 07:45:03 am"

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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.


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