freebsd-update to 10.2-RELEASE broken ?

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

> On 16 Aug 2015, at 21:16 , Christian Kratzer <ck-lists at cksoft.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>>> It could be the classic fall back to TCP on SRV records problem on
>>> your upstream DNS forwarder if you're using one:
>>> 
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2012-May/074801.html
>> 
>> If I query that same DNS resolver using the line from
>> the script, it works every time. It's a 10.1p16 host with
>> a very recent ports build, and directly connected (no NAT, no
>> fw etc).
>> 
>> If that would be the problem, how could I diagnose it in depth ?
> 
> freebsd-update upgrade just failed on 3 other vm even when I explicitly
> specified the server using freebsd-update -s.
> 
> I had success on another vm when I changed to using google dns.
> 
> I am not aware that anything would be blocking tcp dns in my setups.
> 
> Must be something else dns related.
> 
> Perhaps I will run a local resolver in a vm and logg all queries and dns
> traffic.

Or run tcpdump for port 53;   also curious if it might be an IPv4 vs. IPv6 issue?


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