Why is the nonfree.eu server so often offline? It seems to me that its nearly about 50% of a day…
It’s typically “offline” during an update of the packages.
Also, it’s a community-driven server/thing, so that also plays a role, I think.
nonfree.eu is a free service pointing to the github page for the repo - if it is not accessible it has something to do with how github handles the request.
$ drill nonfree.eu
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 1506
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; nonfree.eu. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
nonfree.eu. 1549 IN A 185.199.111.153
nonfree.eu. 1549 IN A 185.199.108.153
nonfree.eu. 1549 IN A 185.199.109.153
nonfree.eu. 1549 IN A 185.199.110.153
[...]
Seems to be offline again?
$ dig nonfree.eu@1.1.1.1
; <<>> DiG 9.18.27 <<>> nonfree.eu@1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 17209
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nonfree.eu\@1.1.1.1. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 86400 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2024060501 1800 900 604800 86400
;; Query time: 250 msec
;; SERVER: 10.1.200.3#53(10.1.200.3) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 06 08:55:54 AWST 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 122
You are referring to a DNS service which for some reason is ignoring the authoritative nameserver for nonfree.eu
The authoritative DNS is with joker.com and looks like this
$ drill nonfree.eu
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 63275
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; nonfree.eu. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
nonfree.eu. 394 IN A 185.199.109.153
nonfree.eu. 394 IN A 185.199.111.153
nonfree.eu. 394 IN A 185.199.108.153
nonfree.eu. 394 IN A 185.199.110.153
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nonfree.eu. 86400 IN NS z.ns.joker.com.
nonfree.eu. 86400 IN NS y.ns.joker.com.
nonfree.eu. 86400 IN NS x.ns.joker.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
x.ns.joker.com. 14400 IN A 194.245.103.13
y.ns.joker.com. 7200 IN A 23.88.49.189
z.ns.joker.com. 14400 IN A 192.95.37.184
y.ns.joker.com. 172800 IN AAAA 2a01:4f8:c0c:165b::1
z.ns.joker.com. 172800 IN AAAA 2607:5300:203:7e6d::2222
;; Query time: 198 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 6 06:08:18 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 256
This dig command will query a IPv4 for the domain nonfree.eu\@1.1.1.1.
. If you want to query the DNS Server 1.1.1.1
you need to add a space between the domain and the @ for the server you want to query.
For exmaple
dig nonfree.eu @1.1.1.1
welp, that would do it. Although the reason I was digging in the first place was because pamac was failing to resolve it, so.
Seems to be resolved presently.