PackMan

I updated my !PackMan lists today and some package URLs seem to be pointing to riscpkg.org which has no DNS record, i don’t have a source pointing to that domain so seems a little odd. Any enlightenment would be ideal and appreciated.

some package URLs seem to be pointing to riscpkg.org which has no DNS record,

www.riscpkg.org has a DNS record, riscpkg.org does not.

C:\>nslookup <a href="http://www.riscpkg.org">www.riscpkg.org</a> 8.8.8.8
Server:  dns.google
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    delenn.riscpkg.org
Address:  81.187.217.250
Aliases:  <a href="http://www.riscpkg.org">www.riscpkg.org</a>

C:\>nslookup riscpkg.org 8.8.8.8
Server:  dns.google
Address:  8.8.8.8

Name:    riscpkg.org

It is common to have a CNAME record for the domain (riscpkg.org) without the www host to alias the bare domain onto the A Record of the www server host.

user@domain:~$ nslookup riscpkg.org
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:

• Can’t find riscpkg.org: No answer

user@domain:~$ nslookup delenn.riscpkg.org
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: delenn.riscpkg.org
Address: 81.187.217.250

Okay i get that but a bit odd not to assign an IP to the TLD

So assume the server is just down then.

I posted this a couple of days ago. Just go to Advanced→Sources and untick http://www.riscpkg.org/pkg/Unstable and you can update the lists.

I don’t have this domain in my listed sources, i did say that five hours ago. That is why i find this odd, the management of riscpkg.org is just even more odd, why would you assign an IP to www but not the root domain, just defies logic.

the management of riscpkg.org is just even more odd

It has a DNS entry, just not any A records. Here’s the output from a full DNS query:

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;riscpkg.org.			IN	ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
riscpkg.org.		21599	IN	SOA	ns2.mythic-beasts.com. hostmaster.mythic-beasts.com. 2010000159 21600 7200 604800 3600
riscpkg.org.		21599	IN	NS	ns1.mythic-beasts.com.
riscpkg.org.		21599	IN	NS	ns2.mythic-beasts.com.
riscpkg.org.		3599	IN	MX	10 mail.riscpkg.org.

This is (or at least was) a perfectly valid way to set up a domain which has a mail relay but no web servers (“www.riscpkg.org” is a separate entry which does have an A record). It’s an odd way of setting up a domain now, but that probably means that the DNS entries haven’t been changed since the domain was created many years ago.

Well i updated the sources this morning (didn’t change anything) and it updated fine, very odd indeed.

Yes there are issues with Packman, but your comments on Linux make no sense whatsoever, find a Linux forum (not here), and get someone to put you straight.