On 2020-09-27 03:38, Scott Long wrote:
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?
I think this is the wrong approach, and the better approach is to have
the official installer use download.freebsd.org (which already is
geo-located). I also feel like this is probably something that core and
possibly clusteradm should weigh in on, since it affects how we
distribute FreeBSD.
My impression was that we were generally trying to move away from
mirrors hosted by various people and organizations all over the world,
where we have little control, to our own mirrors behind
download.freebsd.org. If this is the case, perhaps we should do so in
the installer as well.
That said, I'm not opposed to the idea of using DNS SRV/TXT records to
construct mirror lists, especially if we want to keep on using those
mirrors.
Regards
--
Niclas Zeising
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