Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:40:38 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Message-ID: <20080421214038.GA80334@ozzmosis.com>
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I have serveral FreeBSD machines on my home network and was wondering why Portsnap failed to find any mirrors on some but not others. I had a look at the /usr/sbin/portsnap script to find out what it is doing. The command it calls to search for mirrors is: host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org resulting in: ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached After a bit of investigating it turns out that on the machines where it failed, /etc/resolv.conf was configured to use my D-Link DSL-504T ADSL modem/router's internal nameserver for DNS lookups. Changing resolv.conf to instead point directly at my ISP's nameservers solved the problem.
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