> On Sep 26, 2020, at 5:24 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> > wrote: > > >> >> >>>> On Sep 26, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I am the wrong person to answer that question. >>> >>> In this case, things have not become lame. For instance, the names >>> ervers for se.freebsd.org work fine, but ftp3.se and ftp6.se records are >>> removed. Same for ru.freebsd.org and ftp4.ru. >>> I'm merely pointing out that changing ftp.CC.freebsd.org usually >>> requires contacting the person(s) maintaining the CC.freebsd.org zone, >>> which is usually not the project. >>> >>> It's usually people associated with the project in some way, but who might >>> not be as responsive as cluster admin. These domains have been delegated, >>> so we have to get the delegated admin to make the changes, which can take a >>> bit of time to chase down and doesn't lend itself to easy / automated >>> coping with this situation. >>> >> >> Just a spitball idea here, but maybe we should consider not embedding these >> lists of mirror URLs into the binaries. It seems pretty straight-forward >> that the list evolves over time, and that evolution is not tightly coupled >> with the updating of the binaries. It sounds like the pkg and >> freebsd-update infrastructure use DNS TXT and/or SRV records to point to the >> metadata needed to construct a mirror URL list dynamically. Maybe something >> similar can be done for bsdconfig? If it?s not a crazy idea, is there >> anyone who would be interested in helping me write a proposal over at arch@? > > 100% behind that idea! Especially since it seems the project has lost > (some) control over its DNS space, which IMHO, is still an issue, if > the people whom DNS zones have been deligated to are not responsive > that should also
Words of agreement don’t help at the moment, though i appreciate your enthusiasm. Would you he able to help write a proposal for the arch@ mailing list? Thanks, Scott _______________________________________________ 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"
