On 11/17/25 14:48, Mark Millard wrote:
A type of thing that may be odd for now for folks trying to test
15.0-RC1 :
# ping -4 pkgbase.freebsd.org
ping: cannot resolve pkgbase.freebsd.org: No address associated with name
# ping -6 pkgbase.freebsd.org
ping: cannot resolve pkgbase.freebsd.org: Address family for hostname not
supported
And yet pkg+https://pkgbase.freebsd.org/ works. :-)
The pkg(8) tool looks up SRV records
$ host -t srv _https._tcp.pkgbase.freebsd.org
_https._tcp.pkgbase.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 100 443
cloudfront.aws.pkgbase.freebsd.org.
and that's the real host. (Right now; we might add other endpoints in the
future.)
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
