From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 14:33:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F151065672 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:33:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 585A88FC12 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:33:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 18042 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2008 14:33:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.215.159.66) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 30 Oct 2008 14:33:29 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8F5941704D; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:33:27 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:33:27 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: Alasdair Reed Message-ID: <20081030143327.GA6181@ozzmosis.com> References: <20081030113858.GB9580@paxpc1.localhost.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081030113858.GB9580@paxpc1.localhost.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:33:33 -0000 On Thu 2008-10-30 22:38:58 UTC+1100, Alasdair Reed (alasdair@iprimus.com.au) wrote: > I have been trying to update my system remotely using freebsd-update.sh . On 6.3 you should be using /usr/sbin/freebsd-update. Can you ping update1.freebsd.org? $ ping -c 5 update1.FreeBSD.org PING update1.FreeBSD.org (72.21.59.252): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=233.185 ms 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=233.034 ms 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=233.655 ms 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=234.310 ms 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=233.445 ms --- update1.FreeBSD.org ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 233.034/233.526/234.310/0.446 ms You might also like to try the --debug switch: $ sudo /usr/sbin/freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... latest.ssl 100% of 512 B 582 kBps done. Fetching metadata index... 344cfb64472cacb781688b5de744795f140233e84105c4100% of 225 B 234 kBps done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 6.3-RELEASE-p5.