On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrew...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 3:16 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On 10/31/13 1:10 AM, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote: > >> On 31-10-2013 09:05, Beeblebrox wrote: > >>> Brian: > >>> Please make sure your message gets posted on > >>> http://forums.freebsd.org/ as a > >>> general announcement. > >>> Also, the DNS records for http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/ does not seem to > have > >>> flushed-through yet (not working as of 08:00 GMT) > >> > >> Quoting from Brians excellent email: > >> > >> "Note that pkg.FreeBSD.org does not have a browsable web page on it > >> and does not have a DNS A record. This is intended as it is an SRV > >> host. pkg(8) knows how to properly use it." > >> > > > > That seems to raise the bar for people trying to check connectivity to > > it via ping/telnet. Is that intentional? > > > > -Alfred > > > You can find the real hosts with dig(1) or drill(1): > > # dig SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org > # drill SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org > > > -- > Regards, > Bryan Drewery > > At present , the packages information and themselves are available from , such as : ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the Internet such as http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/ http://pkg.wolfpond.org/ http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/ This will be a very significant inconvenience for the possible users because without an installed FreeBSD , they will not be able to see what are the available packages there . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
