From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 2 14:37:56 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A31E9C9DAB for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:37:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47537FB1 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:37:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-222-143.knology.net [216.186.222.143] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t82EbsHK022003 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:37:55 -0500 Subject: Re: fail to fetch vulnxml file each night, as seen in daily security, run output. References: <55E700C9.4080000@gmail.com> <55E7020B.6040404@hiwaay.net> <55E707E7.4070904@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55E709C2.8040800@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:43:24 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55E707E7.4070904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:37:56 -0000 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.