Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:20:17 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: mahlerrd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question Message-ID: <4ad871310908080720k1b4e9f71xa8705ace2abd9e7c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66049.51064.qm@web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <66049.51064.qm@web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Hi Richard, On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Richard Mahlerwein<mahlerrd@yahoo.com> wro= te: > I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a GENERIC kernel. > > mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch > Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found. > Fetching public key from update.freebsd.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > Thinking perhaps a networking issue, I checked the machine is accessible.= .. > mobius# ping update.freebsd.org > PING update1.FreeBSD.org (72.21.59.252): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=3D0 ttl=3D51 time=3D64.557 ms > 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=3D1 ttl=3D51 time=3D64.580 ms > ^C > --- update1.FreeBSD.org ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev =3D 64.557/64.569/64.580/0.012 ms > > It responds with update1, so I tried again using update1.freebsd.org (and= several others that I could ping) but it always gives me the same response= . > > A quick check of the handbook and the man pages for both freebsd-update(5= ) and freebsd-update.conf(8) didn't tell me much about this. > > I'm sure it's something stupidly simple. =A0Does anyone have some ideas? > There's quite a bit of useful information missing. For starters, what is the output of 'uname -a'? --=20 Glen Barber
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