On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote:
> pkg/DESCR:
> 
> fpdns is a program that remotely determines DNS server versions. It does
> this by sending a series of borderline DNS queries which are compared
> against a table of responses and server versions.
> 
> False positives or incorrect versions may be reported when trying to
> identify a set of servers residing behind a load-balancing apparatus
> where the servers are of different implementations, when a specific
> implementation behaves like a forwarder, behind a firewall without
> statefull inspection or without Application Intelligence.
> ----------
> 
> I do not like the DISTNAME trick, is there another way to download it or
> is it better to mirror the distfile ?

yes, iirc github sucks for providing reliable tarballs, mirroring should
be preferred..

Landry

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