After ports 283da91322d135059edf1327bf26d00f4205195b which updated libnotify to 0.8.8, my systems cannot fetch the distfile anymore, and even the FreeBSD distcache does not have it: => libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz doesn't seem to exist in /portdistfiles. => Attempting to fetch https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz fetch: https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz: Transient resolver failure => Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz fetch: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz: Not Found => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this => port manually into /portdistfiles and try again. *** Error code 1 It looks like download.gnome.org does not resolve, I only get timeouts, or otherwise SERVFAILs: ; <<>> DiG 9.20.17 <<>> download.gnome.org @213.136.12.52 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 26708 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;download.gnome.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: download.gnome.org. 3600 IN CNAME 1673558209.rsc.cdn77.org. and: ; <<>> DiG 9.20.17 <<>> 1673558209.rsc.cdn77.org. @213.136.12.52 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 28844 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ; EDE: 22 (No Reachable Authority): (delegation cdn77.org) ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;1673558209.rsc.cdn77.org. IN A Obviously we cannot do anything about failing GNOME CDNs, but can somebody make sure the file is available on distcache.FreeBSD.org, or an alternative download location?
The file does fetch on a server a rent, but fails with my home ISP. Anyways, I reuploaded the file here [1] until the problem is resolved. [1] https://arrowd.name/libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz
I tried reporting this in GNOME's GitLab, but failed to create an account. If somebody has an account there, or on GNOME's Discourse instance, maybe it could be reported there?
(In reply to Dimitry Andric from comment #2) I managed to report in the GNOME bug tracker, but they initially believed that it's only a problem on my end. I asked my ISP for some more information, but for now I guess we just have to mirror anything on download.gnome.org.
(In reply to Dimitry Andric from comment #3) Do you mean that it is gnome@ or desktop@ members should change MASTER_SITES for their ports or it is pkgmgr/clusteradm/whoelse should force our distcache infrastructure to pull in all the problematic distfiles? In the latter case the bug should be reassigned.
I had a few back-and-forths with people from CDN77, which is the CDN for gnome.org, and it seems that now the networking issues are resolved, at least when I attempt to download stuff from within my network (under BIT.nl): % fetch https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz libnotify-0.8.8.tar.xz 112 kB 6506 kBps 00s And: % dig download.gnome.org ; <<>> DiG 9.20.18 <<>> download.gnome.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 57618 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232 ; COOKIE: 2b47b445b9412a0301000000698b63659398c3b685f8860e (good) ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;download.gnome.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: download.gnome.org. 3402 IN CNAME 1673558209.rsc.cdn77.org. 1673558209.rsc.cdn77.org. 15 IN A 195.181.172.6 1673558209.rsc.cdn77.org. 15 IN A 195.181.172.3 ;; Query time: 6 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP) ;; WHEN: Tue Feb 10 17:57:09 CET 2026 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 142 If other people can confirm their downloads now also work, this bug can be closed.