cygwin.com fine, but cant reach x.cygwin.com (connection refused) is there an alternate?

[Mark Wielaard]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 10:46:14AM -0700, Brian Inglis via Overseers wrote:
> On 2025-12-03 10:10, Bruce Dobrin via Cygwin wrote:
> >I cant reach x.cygwin.com (connection refused)
> >is there an alternate? Cygwin.com ( no x. )seems fine.
> 
> Alternative should be Cygwin/X link in left navbar of Cygwin home page
> - also timed out.
> 
> Servers were migrated and upgraded on the weekend.
> Was a vhost dropped?
> [...]
> $ host -t any x.cygwin.com
> socket.c:2908: setsockopt(20, IPV6_RECVTCLASS) failed: Invalid argument
> x.cygwin.com is an alias for server2.sourceware.org.

Oops. That should have been a CNAME for cygwin.com (or sourceware.org)

I see the following "vhosts" have the same issue:

- www.xfree.cygwin.com
- xfree.cygwin.com
- x.cygwin.com

Are these all still in use?
Did we miss any others?

Apologies for missing this.

Cheers,

Mark