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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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