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Subject: Re: Continuing problem with "portsnap"
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On 02/11/2010 13:37, Jerry wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 05:32:44 -0700
> Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> articulated:
>
>>
>> This is a separate issue due to bad DNS - the list of mirrors is
>> obtained from:
>>
>> host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org
>>
>> and falls back to just portsnap.freebsd.org if it doesn't work.
> Results:
>
> $ fetch http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/pub.ssl
> fetch: http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/pub.ssl: No address record
>
> $ fetch http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/snapshot.ssl
> fetch: http://portsnap1.freebsd.org/snapshot.ssl: No address record
>
> $ host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> Yes, I would say that something is broken somewhere, I just am not sure
> where.
>
Sounds like DNS to me.
what output do you get from
dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org


Vince