Re: What happened to 16?

Chris Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:02:27 -0800

On 2025-12-08 02:53, Thomas Schweikle wrote:

Hmmm. If I click on this link send by me, I'll get a list of what is
available. Clicking on one entry starts downloading.

Hmm. I hadn't thought that it might be a regional thing. Odd tho, as the
mirroring outfit is a Seattle based firm and I'm not 30 some miles from

Seattle. I guess I'll just have to wait. Appreciate your confirmation, Thomas.


$ dig download.freebsd.org

; <<>> DiG 9.20.11-1ubuntu2.1-Ubuntu <<>> download.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29834
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;download.freebsd.org.          IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
download.freebsd.org.   2391    IN      CNAME   download.geo.freebsd.org.
download.geo.freebsd.org. 150   IN      A       151.101.65.242
download.geo.freebsd.org. 150   IN      A       151.101.1.242
download.geo.freebsd.org. 150   IN      A       151.101.193.242
download.geo.freebsd.org. 150   IN      A       151.101.129.242

;; Query time: 157 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Mon Dec 08 11:52:52 CET 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 140

What do you receive if digging about the address of download.freebsd.org?


On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2025-12-08 02:33, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> You looked for 16-stable?
No. It's a releng. :-)

> Does not exist. It is CURRENT without 16. You'll
> find it at:
>
> https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/16.0/
Nope. As I indicated below. All those references return 404.
16 no longer exists on the FreeBSD servers. :O


Thank you for taking the time to respond. :-)

>
> looking for ISO-Images.
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I just got a new laptop and tried to boot 13.5,14 and 15
>> but it hangs at the video -- something about loosing contact
>> with sc. So I went to get a copy of 16. But download.freebsd.org
>> doesn't know where it is. All the links to it from FreeBSD.org
>> return 404.
>>
>> So where is it?
>>
>> Thanks! :-)
>>


--Chris

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