Updates timeout connecting to pkg.pfsense.org.

ryan29

Hi,

I'm trying to update from 2.3.2 to the newest version. However, the update keeps failing when trying to download packages from pkg.pfsense.org. Is it supposed to be using pkg.pfsense.org?

dig pkg.pfsense.org @ns1.netgate.com

…gives:

; <<>> DiG 9.9.4-RedHat-9.9.4-51.el7_4.1 <<>> pkg.pfsense.org @ns1.netgate.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6590
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pkg.pfsense.org.               IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
pfsense.org.            300     IN      SOA     ns1.netgate.com. admin.netgate.com. 201608322 3600 7200 1209600 3600

;; Query time: 74 msec
;; SERVER: 192.207.126.6#53(192.207.126.6)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 04 14:22:22 CST 2018
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 101

johnpoz

that is never going to work because pkg.pfsense.org is not a A record its SRV record..

Dig for
_http._tcp.pkg.pfsense.org

or

dig _https._tcp.pkg.pfsense.org

example

dig _http._tcp.pkg.pfsense.org SRV

; <<>> DiG 9.11.2 <<>> _http._tcp.pkg.pfsense.org SRV
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43779
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_http._tcp.pkg.pfsense.org. IN SRV

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_http._tcp.pkg.pfsense.org. 3600 IN SRV 10 10 80 files00.netgate.com.
_http._tcp.pkg.pfsense.org. 3600 IN SRV 10 10 80 files01.netgate.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
pfsense.org. 3600 IN NS ns1.netgate.com.
pfsense.org. 3600 IN NS ns2.netgate.com.

;; Query time: 68 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.3.10#53(192.168.3.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 04 14:29:48 Central Standard Time 2018
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 180

ryan29

Thanks for the quick reply and explanation. I didn't realized it was using a SRV record. I'm likely seeing a localized issue since I see now that it fails (randomly) on different packages. Sorry for the noise.