> On 2020-09-26 20:12, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> Author: zeising (doc,ports committer) > >> Date: Sat Sep 26 16:27:09 2020 > >> New Revision: 366186 > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366186 > >> > >> Log: > >> bsdconfig, bsdinstall: Prune dead mirrors > >> > >> Prune dead mirrors from the list of mirrors in bsdconfig and bsdinstall. > >> All these return NXDOMAIN when trying to resolve them. > > > > This seems like the wrong place to fix it, as this does > > nothing for all the "shipped" releases that contain the > > old values. Shouldnt these all just be CNAMED in dns > > to a nearest replacement resource? > > > > > > Considering that we don't actually have control of the subdomans > (CC.freebsd.org) ourselves, that is trickier than it might sound.
How can freebsd.org NOT have ultimate control over deligations? If things have become "lame" in a deligated zone the deligation can and should be pulled and replaced with local data. This is cc.freebsd.org, not freebsd.org.cc! > I do not oppose that change, but I'm not doing the work to chase all the > subdomain DNS admins down to try to fix it. Nor should you, this should be a clusteradm/domain administration person that should already working to keep the projects DNS data up to date and reliable. > This change cleans out some old mirrors for the 12.2 release, so that > people installing 12.2 (and later stuff) won't have the installer > complain when they accidentally pick a nonexistent mirror. > I believe that the proper way to fix this is to just use the FreeBSD CDN > even for these downloads (basically, go straight to > download.freebsd.org, or at least have that as the preferred option), > but I haven't gotten around to that. > Regards > -- > Niclas Zeising > -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"