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Date:      Fri, 5 Aug 2016 21:21:46 -0500
From:      Yass Amed <zagazaw2004@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: Re: freebsd-update borked?
Message-ID:  <49953737-ae52-b435-151c-27d5375d40e2@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.11.1470398400.37893.freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
References:  <mailman.11.1470398400.37893.freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>

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On 08/05/2016 07:00 AM, freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org wrote:
> Well the:
>
> [root@cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
> [root@cheetah ~]# mkdir  /var/db/freebsd-update
>
> Would have done the same thing...
>
> DNS should be fine... appears to be:
>
> [michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ dig update.freebsd.org
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-P2 <<>> update.freebsd.org
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39566
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;update.freebsd.org.        IN    A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> update.freebsd.org.    600    IN    CNAME    update5.freebsd.org.
> update5.freebsd.org.    600    IN    A    204.9.55.80
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> freebsd.org.        600    IN    NS    ns2.isc-sns.com.
> freebsd.org.        600    IN    NS    ns1.isc-sns.net.
> freebsd.org.        600    IN    NS    ns3.isc-sns.info.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.isc-sns.net.    3600    IN    A    72.52.71.1
> ns1.isc-sns.net.    3600    IN    AAAA    2001:470:1a::1
> ns2.isc-sns.com.    3600    IN    A    63.243.194.1
> ns2.isc-sns.com.    3600    IN    AAAA    2001:5a0:10::1
> ns3.isc-sns.info.    3600    IN    A    63.243.194.1
> ns3.isc-sns.info.    3600    IN    AAAA    2001:5a0:10::1
>
> ;; Query time: 164 msec
> ;; SERVER: 89.150.192.2#53(89.150.192.2)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Aug  4 22:41:04 2016
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 294
>
> And actually it'll do this:
>
> [michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 40 80 update6.freebsd.org.
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 50 80 update5.freebsd.org.
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 5 80 update3.freebsd.org.
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 35 80 update4.freebsd.org.
>
> Which actually returns this:
>
> [michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org | sed -nE "s/update.freebsd.org (has SRV
> record|server selection) //p" | cut -f 1,2,4 -d ' ' | sed -e 's/\.$//' |
> sort
> _http._tcp.1 35 update4.freebsd.org
> _http._tcp.1 40 update6.freebsd.org
> _http._tcp.1 5 update3.freebsd.org
> _http._tcp.1 50 update5.freebsd.org
>
> You'll note however, that now...
>
> [michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ sudo freebsd-update -r
> 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
> Password:
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
>
> The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
> kernel/generic world/base world/doc
>
> The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
> src/src world/games world/lib32
>
> Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
>
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
> .
> .
> etc..
>
> So what ever was broken is not now... and it still says "Looking up
> update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found."
>
> Thanks for trying...

I'm glad it worked itself out, I've seen posts like these multiple times 
before. It could be that you tried downloading the upgrade while 
devs/maintainers were working on updating the files on the server(s).

About the "...not found" message, I'm only aware of DNS to be causing 
this issue, but it's definitely not limited to that.


Yass

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