Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:10:08 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up Message-ID: <20081007151008.GA66624@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0810060139r740c3a96hc9c79028e7b93a4d@mail.gmail.com> References: <94136a2c0810060139r740c3a96hc9c79028e7b93a4d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon 2008-10-06 10:39:42 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszalbot@gmail.com) wrote: > I am not sure why but whenever I do: > > $ freebsd-update fetch > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > but if type: > $ portsnap fetch > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... done. > > Many thanks for any hint as to what may be wrong with > update.FreeBSD.org on this machine! A similar problem to this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/173725.html It may be your ISP's nameservers do not support SRV record lookups.
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