From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 8 14:25:16 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 210A51065674 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:25:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mahlerrd@yahoo.com) Received: from web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBDF48FC15 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25882 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Aug 2009 14:25:15 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1249741515; bh=ZvYUo3sBVHGUNfDZk0RyWG8g8CC9Vy3liFw6/ygYavw=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=K3lJl7is0QFbATSfpTfv10OH665A33pEChLlyieNCJgSL7GQDs7C51esmZ/5DKVtLWxZIZl+gEf1AecQpfWVok1A0IXgZQn/CTAx7FixJCXQEXyxufIsAOhzpqanJ76nVANXer79XmbF2otzo8ocHIye1YdzD5R54DbCnVkY8SY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=vkd4ADrY57slv8X5vSBGCzYAu5lI4Ru4xK7pokBCE7A6OzGBiT9kqvnLmZjURV+FDzm0Wsrdl6pWm4GMsi50oiIN/DbUo42/wJCDdXAnMrH6orMoGUIhlvRlBoCaQCe/1TLERWxw7Yxu9BrODflXPyOJISUQN0cPVG+tdZtzHJs=; Message-ID: <129263.24894.qm@web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: CD163nwVM1lByIOrRdu5viEgVLMuEOPOxsV5qmA21izNjzwhkrKAiiAbwiYrhkeKUa_WzM3VLMsK.Ez2YPVEdqmzCEWiYE4fpdFEh5vufrUvo45KqMfN4rBiDTBpIJj0K3qKKdB5x3Tw2cElu5Yek.7eGtzbB5dO.snQKHdlDXBo0iA4xJO7zDgaipAXG.sKfKJ1_JMFuAaTAPMM0tyfIx5dFJWMmCv4amqTJoebuM_a3ni5kevq.MsYTyRfkMzPs_bPbc6XayCL8jYT7nZvsjruVw5ECOcZxmhccxQlZPcfntBYTiAvj6ASlOHj_PTBa5VpjWR5QQ7PhOHZ_ziU0.WI5HEv7atj3aLL Received: from [71.117.53.27] by web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:25:14 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/6.1.2 YahooMailWebService/0.7.338.2 Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:25:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Mahlerwein To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4ad871310908080720k1b4e9f71xa8705ace2abd9e7c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mahlerrd@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:25:16 -0000 --- On Sat, 8/8/09, Glen Barber wrote: > From: Glen Barber > Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question > To: mahlerrd@yahoo.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 10:20 AM > Hi Richard, > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Richard Mahlerwein > wrote: > > 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=0 ttl=51 > time=64.557 ms > > 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 > time=64.580 ms > > ^C > > --- update1.FreeBSD.org ping statistics --- > > 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet > loss > > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = > 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. Does anyone > have some ideas? > > > > There's quite a bit of useful information missing. > > For starters, what is the output of 'uname -a'? > > -- > Glen Barber > Sorry, forgot to paste that. mobius# uname -a FreeBSD mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 5 02:34:20 CDT 2008 rich@mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386