Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:51:00 -0600 From: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> To: kitchetech@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update "can't find update.FreeBSD.org" Message-ID: <BAY122-F405B6EE1ED88E557CBECD2BA260@phx.gbl>
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matt donovan wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steven Susbauer ><stupendoussteve@hotmail.com <mailto:stupendoussteve@hotmail.com>> wrote: > > freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName > update.FreeBSD.org <http://update.FreeBSD.org>" is not changed to > "ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org <http://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 <http://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 <http://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. > > >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) > update.freebsd.org does not have a DNS entry associated with it, could that be part of the problem I'm having? (just-ping.com gets Unknown Host from 34 systems around the world)
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