Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:43:24 -0453.75 From: "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: <55E709C2.8040800@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55E707E7.4070904@gmail.com> References: <55E700C9.4080000@gmail.com> <55E7020B.6040404@hiwaay.net> <55E707E7.4070904@gmail.com>
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On 09/02/15 09:36, Ernie Luzar wrote: > 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. Agreed. Misconfigured repo or repo down for some reason ? If so, not a design or software flaw BTW, but a (presumably temporary) infrastructure issue. If a bad file-name in a config file, bug, file it :-), although it is a bit hard to believe that would have survived 2 software version revisions. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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