Bug 251005

Summary: Problem with package server
Product: Services Reporter: Basil Hendroff <basil.hendroff>
Component: Core InfrastructureAssignee: Cluster Admin <clusteradm>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: basil.hendroff, jethro, lwhsu, philip
Priority: ---    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Basil Hendroff 2020-11-10 09:27:06 UTC 
Package servers are geo-mirrored and there appears to be a problem with the mirror closest to me. There doesn't appear to be a way to easily switch mirrors.

Symptom:
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root@acme2:~ # pkg update
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz: Not Found
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.txz: Not Found
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!

Mirror affected:
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I'm situated in Western Australia. The mirror closest to me appears to be in Malaysia:

FreeBSD.org ftp server
This is ftp0.kul.FreeBSD.org - a Malaysian mirror for FreeBSD downloads.

It is generously hosted by the Malaysian Research & Education Network near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This server's contents:

Current FreeBSD ftp data
FreeBSD.org home
Comment 1 Jethro Nederhof 2020-11-10 09:39:10 UTC 
Also seeing this in Sydney, Australia.

Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/meta.txz: Not Found
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/packagesite.txz: Not Found
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!
Comment 2 Jethro Nederhof 2020-11-10 09:52:06 UTC 
Interestingly manually using http://pkg0.kul.freebsd.org/ seems to work OK, so not an issue with the mirror itself.
Comment 3 Basil Hendroff 2020-11-10 10:15:28 UTC 
(In reply to Jethro Nederhof from comment #2)
That is interesting! Looks like an issue with redirection.
Comment 4 Li-Wen Hsu freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-11-10 11:51:53 UTC 
GeoDNS issues, people are working on it.
Comment 5 Philip Paeps freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-11-10 11:52:59 UTC 
I made a typo in the Geo-DNS earlier.  Sorry about that.  It should be fixed but it might take a while before it starts sending you to Malaysia again.

Thank you for reporting this.
Comment 6 Basil Hendroff 2020-11-10 12:11:25 UTC 
(In reply to Philip Paeps from comment #5)
Thank you!