"portsnap" unable to locate mirrors

Lystic Emsen lystic1 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 20:56:37 UTC 2010


>From the machine you run portsnap on, try this:

nslookup portsnap2.freebsd.org

Let me know if that works.  It may be a DNS error.


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:

> I have been having problems with 'portsnap' for two days now. It
> continually emits error messages. The latest being:
>
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this phenomena?
>
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