On 11/02/2013 07:28 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 02/11/2013 11:37, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> On 02/11/2013 10:15, Matthias Andree wrote: >>>> I understand from Eric's pist that the issue is that through his >>>> limiting proxies, the SRV are not available at all so he does not even >>>> get to the point where he could get the pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org >>>> <http://pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org> name back. >>> >>> That doesn't make sense. All the DNS SRV lookups on pkg.freebsd.org are >>> done internally to pkg(8), >> >> ... which only works, if the DNS server queried answers SRV queries >> with SRV values. >> >> Which is not always true, especially in heavily firewalled environments. > > I feel no obligation to do anything to encourage people that > deliberately break the DNS. They've made their bed, and now they have > to lie in it. Eric Camachat didn't break the DNS: his network administrator did. Matthew, you're right: that doesn't make sense. But people do it, often for security, either real or perceived. In this kind of environment, many other things are typically equally broken. I imagine Eric needs all the encouragement he can get. Yes, he can reconfigure pkg to use a specific mirror. I only suggest that it could be made to work without that manual step (and the research necessary to determine that step). Lest anyone think I'm complaining: I am very impressed with pkg, and I appreciate all the technical and non-technical effort that Bryan, Baptiste, and many others spent on making it real. Instead of a complaint, consider this a feature request. That is, after all, the expected response to a feature announcement. :) Eric (van Gyzen)Received on Sat Nov 02 2013 - 13:01:58 UTC
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