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> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Steve Franks
> Sent: 07 October 2008 21:57

> I've googled high & low but I cannot find much other that "this cannot
> happen" replies.  I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386.  The amd64
> hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march.  The i386 I
> just installed, and it portsnap's fine, so it's not a firewall or
> related issue.  I've checked my key and it looks ok.  What am I
> missing?
> 
> Best,
> Steve
> 
> 
> dystant# portsnap fetch
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> Updating from Mon Mar  3 07:50:14 MST 2008 to Tue Oct  7 
> 12:43:25 MST 2008.
> Fetching 0 metadata patches. done.
> Applying metadata patches... done.
> Fetching 0 metadata files... done.
> Fetching 12365 patches.. done.
> Applying patches... done.
> Fetching 13708 new ports or files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open
> e53d7ea3f6fbc2e6a87a1f194ea623fc6b27c74d9aecfd61e0d765e86d861ad5.gz:
> No such file or directory
> snapshot is corrupt.
> dystant#

Steve: 

Are you using a proxy server? If so this could be perhaps the proxy server
not fully supporting HTTP/1.1 persistent
connections. Can you try this:

 sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized=0
 portsnap fetch update

Cheers,

Barry