Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:59:15 +0200 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up Message-ID: <94136a2c0810070059i297172b9la05c37befc8ae3e6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081007075524.GA72002@mavetju.org> References: <94136a2c0810060139r740c3a96hc9c79028e7b93a4d@mail.gmail.com> <20081007075524.GA72002@mavetju.org>
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Hi, 2008/10/7 Edwin Groothuis: >> $ 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. This issue and its fix have been described here: http://www.nabble.com/misc-127498:-update.freebsd.org-does-not-exist-td19572945.html I was already using my ISP nameserver so it was not the problem. -- Zbigniew Szalbot
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