"portsnap" unable to locate mirrors

[Jerry]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:29:14 -0500
Lystic Emsen <lystic1 at gmail.com> articulated:

> 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?
> 
> 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.

Well, some minor progress. This is the latest output:

Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... fetch: http://portsnap1.FreeBSD.org/t/c4523276897a50ff0ca27add61344a4e96cc19a5f7e0bc8f8e17d138819e19a2: No address record
sha256: c4523276897a50ff0ca27add61344a4e96cc19a5f7e0bc8f8e17d138819e19a2: No such file or directory
[: !=: unexpected operator
mv: rename c4523276897a50ff0ca27add61344a4e96cc19a5f7e0bc8f8e17d138819e19a2 to tINDEX.new: No such file or directory
done.
grep: tINDEX.new: No such file or directory
look: tINDEX.new: No such file or directory

Portsnap metadata appears bogus.
Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.

-- 
Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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