Freebsd-update question

[Richard Mahlerwein]

--- On Sat, 8/8/09, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
> To: mahlerrd at yahoo.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 10:20 AM
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Richard Mahlerwein<mahlerrd at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a
> GENERIC kernel.
> >
> > mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
> > Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
> > Fetching public key from update.freebsd.org...
> failed.
> > No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> >
> > Thinking perhaps a networking issue, I checked the
> machine is accessible...
> > mobius# ping update.freebsd.org
> > PING update1.FreeBSD.org (72.21.59.252): 56 data
> bytes
> > 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51
> time=64.557 ms
> > 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51
> time=64.580 ms
> > ^C
> > --- update1.FreeBSD.org ping statistics ---
> > 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet
> loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev =
> 64.557/64.569/64.580/0.012 ms
> >
> > It responds with update1, so I tried again using
> update1.freebsd.org (and several others that I could ping)
> but it always gives me the same response.
> >
> > A quick check of the handbook and the man pages for
> both freebsd-update(5) and freebsd-update.conf(8) didn't
> tell me much about this.
> >
> > I'm sure it's something stupidly simple.  Does anyone
> have some ideas?
> >
> 
> There's quite a bit of useful information missing.
> 
> For starters, what is the output of 'uname -a'?
> 
> -- 
> Glen Barber
>

Sorry, forgot to paste that.
mobius# uname -a
FreeBSD mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep  5 02:34:20 CDT 2008     rich at mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386