Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:29:59 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fail to fetch vulnxml file each night, as seen in daily security, run output. Message-ID: <55E707E7.4070904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55E7020B.6040404@hiwaay.net> References: <55E700C9.4080000@gmail.com> <55E7020B.6040404@hiwaay.net>
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William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 09/02/15 09:05, Ernie Luzar wrote: >> Hello list; >> >> I get the following message in the daily security run output on both >> my 10.1 and 10.2 systems. Both which were installed from scratch >> using a cdisc1.iso file. >> >> Checking for packages with security vulnerabilities: >> pkg: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2: No route to host >> pkg: cannot fetch vulnxml file >> >> -- End of security output -- >> >> >> Is this normal by design? > > > 'No route to host' means networking issue. I get the same thing > whenever I disconnect my Cable modem overnight, which I often do. Make > sure your networking is working AOK overnight when that fetch is > attempted. > > My network is on 7/24 so that is not the problem. When I launch http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2 in my browser I get a 404. This means the vuln.xml.bz2 is not present.
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