From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 07:56:07 2008 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 951271065695 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (ppp121-44-96-65.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net [121.44.96.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A9F8FC0A for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C96C345039; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:55:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:55:24 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20081007075524.GA72002@mavetju.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0810060139r740c3a96hc9c79028e7b93a4d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot Subject: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up 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: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:56:07 -0000 > $ freebsd-update fetch > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. I've heard this before and it is caused by resolvers (most likely your router?) which don't understand requests for SRV records. Use your ISPs nameservers instead of your router and it should be fine. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/ edwin@mavetju.org Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/