On 02/11/2013 11:37, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > >> On 02/11/2013 10:15, Matthias Andree wrote: >>> I understand from Eric's pist that the issue is that through his >>> limiting proxies, the SRV are not available at all so he does not even >>> get to the point where he could get the pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org >>> <http://pkgN.nyi.freebsd.org> name back. >> >> That doesn't make sense. All the DNS SRV lookups on pkg.freebsd.org are >> done internally to pkg(8), > > ... which only works, if the DNS server queried answers SRV queries > with SRV values. > > Which is not always true, especially in heavily firewalled environments.
I feel no obligation to do anything to encourage people that
deliberately break the DNS. They've made their bed, and now they have
to lie in it.
Cheers,
Matthew
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