On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:55:13PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/11/12 21:54, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > There is no A record @8.8.8.8 or @8.8.4.4 or at the root servers. > > There's not supposed to be an A record. Portsnap should work > anyway... it uses SRV. :-)
Aaah! you got me there. Confused with the request of "host -t a $mirror" As that will always return: Console> host -t a geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org Host geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Anyway... coming from: portsnap fetch -s geodns.portsnap.freebsd.org [...] Fetching snapshot tag from geodns-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. [...] traceroute -a geodns-1.portsnap.freebsd.org [...Hop 1 & 2 Removed...] 3 [AS65534] 10.179.128.1 (10.179.128.1) 29.264 ms 17.160 ms 19.436 ms 4 [AS20115] dtr01hlldmi-gbe-1-15.hlld.mi.charter.com (96.34.36.6) 19.179 ms 26.340 ms 20.013 ms 5 * [AS20115] crr02aldlmi-tge-0-2-0-2.aldl.mi.charter.com (96.34.32.76) 20.143 ms 16.769 ms 6 [AS20115] bbr01aldlmi-tge-0-1-0-3.aldl.mi.charter.com (96.34.2.216) 19.888 ms 17.378 ms 29.909 ms 7 [AS20115] bbr01chcgil-tge-0-2-0-6.chcg.il.charter.com (96.34.0.99) 29.639 ms 17.517 ms 30.024 ms 8 [AS20115] prr01chcgil-tge-0-1-0-1.chcg.il.charter.com (96.34.3.200) 19.815 ms 27.360 ms 19.918 ms 9 [AS6939] v201.core1.chi1.he.net (216.66.73.241) 29.967 ms 37.066 ms 29.795 ms 10 [AS6939] 64.71.148.238 (64.71.148.238) 19.928 ms 27.328 ms 29.942 ms 11 [AS26943] update5.freebsd.org (204.9.55.80) 19.831 ms 27.494 ms 19.926 ms Hope this helps. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve > Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly > paranoid -- - (2^(N-1))
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