"Nathan Freitas (GP) via guardian-dev" <[email protected]>
writes:

> For sure, we are still here. Most of our chat has moved over to our
> Matrix chat rooms, but we shouldn't ignore email after all.

Glad to hear it!

> What is the issue you are having? There is some know issue if you have
> the DNS cache enabled. We recently migrated some of our mirrors and
> somehow that feature gets in the way.

For a long time (several months), I would get timeouts when checking the
guardian project repo, and occasionally it would work.    Then, trying
to update Tor Browser would just result in timeout.

I'm using the normal/longstanding f-droid client and have not been
trying to enable any extra dns caching (beyond what's built in to the
protocol of course).  I just checked and 'use dns cache was enabled'.
It never occured to me that a 'cache' would keep data for more than a
week; that feels like 'pinning' not 'caching'.  I turned if off because
it seems buggy.  It's super buggy if one moved mirror messes up trying
the rest of them; I'd expect one working mirror and the rest messed up
to be good enough.

My network has a local named with a pretty vanilla config.

I deleted the repo and re-added it, and now things are working better.
I got a new copy of the metadata and that showed an update for orbot,
which I did, and that worked.  The update to TB seemed flaky but it is
now showing as completed, and I think that's likely mostly a
longstanding f-droid client bug, where the update happens but the
"updating" notification doesn't go away and the UI still acts like an
update is needed.  But that happens a lot with others.

So I think I'm fixed now.  Thanks for letting me know it is believed
working for others and the hint.
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