From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 8 14:20:18 2009 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 9AD63106564A for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:20:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2CE8FC15 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so2253847fxm.36 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:20:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=B3COfJ4wefjDwAU3GMg/GmTL8SV9uR0VVSCekTtCsH0=; b=Vzd+ImYnFwmBZsvhaLF6I7psloOAYtaOcIuDTJczGaIgXVxAczlrnufrsZUG3T0soK Mof7DuFd+nPTpFVyHA/1aW5Qht5TWAtBoj/bzd+ymHgHyFqMc9weFrE4cmDvqEIAX6iN fCtJFHG4i+x+aILM6Egacvm/3hr/pJTC9M4jQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZdfHhniH7jiWNTuJPl5zaRy3bSrSLWBZ+EO7E4/w/9sTAh/0Xg07efS1ILiawtPf6x OOcu7JAUrBDJlH4b+i4I9sVgFrxHGEvc2sSUy5wrZ7oXqaL/lFk31YKma/GPXSt/r/nH yi0cqPcxTvYMSIIHmKvYcYCy1MMnRNYLfNFgI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.123.129 with SMTP id p1mr494560far.94.1249741217118; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:20:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <66049.51064.qm@web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <66049.51064.qm@web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:20:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310908080720k1b4e9f71xa8705ace2abd9e7c@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: mahlerrd@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question 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: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:20:18 -0000 Hi Richard, On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Richard Mahlerwein 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