Re: pkg update

"John Levine" <[email protected]> 21 Apr 2026 16:24:29 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Organization Taughannock Networks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that Marco Moock <[email protected]> said:
>
>The pkg software asks for the SRV record of pkg.FreeBSD.org.
>
>~$ dig srv pkg.FreeBSD.org +short
>pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org.

Actually, that's a CNAME.  There's no SRV record.  But I agree it works
fine over IPv6.

$ dig pkg.freebsd.org aaaa

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> pkg.freebsd.org aaaa
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43317
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pkg.freebsd.org.		IN	AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pkg.freebsd.org.	248	IN	CNAME	pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org.
pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org.	150	IN	AAAA	2610:1c1:1:606c::50:1