Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:46:48 -0400 From: "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update "can't find update.FreeBSD.org" Message-ID: <28283d910810291246g4a8d45e4oac61231f804cc375@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY122-F38AC64500097ECC513A3EABA260@phx.gbl> References: <BAY122-F38AC64500097ECC513A3EABA260@phx.gbl>
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steven Susbauer < stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> wrote: > freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName > update.FreeBSD.org" is not changed to "ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org" > in /etc/freebsd-update.conf. > > This happens on at least 6.3, I believe it is also the case in later > versions but am unsure (7-RELEASE and later kill my networking card due > to a kernel regression). > > I am wanting input before writing up a PR, to see if in fact I am just > some isolated case, or if it has been fixed already in newer versions. > > uname -a: > > FreeBSD thinkpad.lan 6.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct > 1 05:34:19 UTC 2008 > root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > Nonfunctional: > > thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. > Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... > fetch: http://update.FreeBSD.org/6.3-RELEASE/i386/latest.ssl: No address > record > failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > With update1: > > thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch > Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. > Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... > latest.ssl 100% of 512 B 123 kBps > done. > Fetching metadata index... > 344cfb64472cacb781688b5de744795f140233e84105c4100% of 225 B 52 kBps > done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-update <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> update.freebsd.org should work Considering that update1.freebsd.org is a mirror for update.freebsd.org. it works fine here for update.freebsd.org ever since I updated to 7.x from 6.2(tested freebsd-update on 6.2)
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