FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival 

Hi all,

There are now more freebsd-update mirrors and it looks like they're handling the
load quite well.

It's possible that the load balancing between mirrors will need to be tweaked a
bit.  If you have problems accessing a mirror (e.g., if freebsd-update exits
with an error of downloading files... failed or complains that a file does not
exist) please:
1. Try again using the -s option to make sure that you're accessing the same
mirror (to make sure that this wasn't a temporary network glitch).
2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a different
mirror.
3. Assuming that the second mirror works, send me an email telling me which
mirror failed and which one worked so that I can have the load balancing 
adjusted.

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Re: FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Aristedes Maniatis 


On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:

2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick  
a different

mirror.


Where can we find a list of mirrors?

Ari Maniatis



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Re: FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Royce Williams 
Aristedes Maniatis wrote, on 1/8/2009 5:12 PM:
 
 On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
 
 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a
 different
 mirror.
 
 Where can we find a list of mirrors?

This technically answers your question, but may not be very
interesting. ;-)

ro...@heffalump$ host -t srv _http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 10 80 update1.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 10 80 update3.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 25 80 update2.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org has SRV record 1 30 80 update4.FreeBSD.org.


Since it's unlikely that most people need to query the servers via 
some means other than freebsd-update, and since freebsd-update 
automatically pulls its list of mirrors from DNS, this is really only
for the sake of curiosity.  The list of mirrors can change at any 
time, which should be transparent to users of freebsd-update.

It looks like a couple of them are through Voxel's content delivery 
network (CDN).  I think that one of them has been hosted by ISC for
some time.  Since the Voxel ones are 3 and 4, I'm guessing that
they are the newcomers.

ro...@heffalump$ host update1.FreeBSD.org
update1.FreeBSD.org has address 72.21.59.252
ro...@heffalump$ host 72.21.59.252
252.59.21.72.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 
252.59.21.72.static.reverse.ltdomains.com.

ro...@heffalump$ host update2.FreeBSD.org
update2.FreeBSD.org has address 149.20.64.41
ro...@heffalump$ host 149.20.64.41
41.64.20.149.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer update2.freebsd.org.
ro...@heffalump$ whois 149.20.64.41 | grep OrgName
OrgName:Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

ro...@heffalump$ host update3.FreeBSD.org
update3.FreeBSD.org has address 72.26.203.74
ro...@heffalump$ host 72.26.203.74
74.203.26.72.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer update3.FreeBSD.org.
ro...@heffalump$ whois 72.26.203.74 | grep OrgName
OrgName:Voxel Dot Net, Inc.

ro...@heffalump$ host update4.FreeBSD.org
update4.FreeBSD.org is an alias for content.voxcdn.net.
content.voxcdn.net is an alias for content.loc.voxcdn.net.
content.loc.voxcdn.net is an alias for content.sjc1.site.voxcdn.net.
content.sjc1.site.voxcdn.net has address 208.122.62.226


Royce

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Re: FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival 

Aristedes Maniatis wrote:


On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:

2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a 
different

mirror.


Where can we find a list of mirrors?


The list of is distributed via DNS SRV records:
# host -t srv _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
prints a list of the mirrors (currently update1 through update4, but that
is subject to change).

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