Re: Updating Ports on 15.0-RELEASE-p5

On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 8:58 AM Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I just noticed this message from a couple of weeks ago.  The problem
> might have been transient but ...
>
> On 2026-04-04 19:50:48 (+0800), Washington Odhiambo wrote:
> > What's going on here?
>
> It looks like you're getting timeouts because you're talking to a
> pkg.FreeBSD.org mirror very far from where you are.
>
> > pkg: Failed to fetch
> > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.conf: Timeout was
> > reached
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > root@gw:/home/wash # ping pkg.FreeBSD.org
> > PING pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org (96.47.72.71): 56 data bytes
> > 64 bytes from 96.47.72.71: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=249.443 ms
> > 64 bytes from 96.47.72.71: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=248.192 ms
> > ^C
> > --- pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org ping statistics ---
> > 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 248.192/248.817/249.443/0.625 ms
> > root@gw:/home/wash # uname -a
> > FreeBSD gw.wash.lan 15.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p5
> > releng/15.0-n281018-0730d5233286 GENERIC amd64
> > root@gw:/home/wash #
>
> It's very odd to see you being sent all the way to New Jersey.  Our
> GeoDNS should be sending you to Fastly infrastructure in Cape Town or
> our mirror in Johannesburg.  Both are still a long way away but 70ms is
> a lot better than 250ms!
>
> Could you tell me your source IP address please?  I can optimise the
> routing.
>

I *was* technically in New Jersey as my VM was routed via my VPN tunnel.
I have since routed the VM via my WAN, but the issue still persists:

root@gw:/home/wash # !trace
traceroute pkg.FreeBSD.org
traceroute to pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org (96.47.72.71), 64 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  192.168.69.1 (192.168.69.1)  0.430 ms  0.428 ms  0.361 ms
 2  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  1.037 ms  0.922 ms  1.058 ms
 3  192.168.222.1 (192.168.222.1)  2.406 ms  2.685 ms  2.354 ms
 4  * * 41.215.131.9 (41.215.131.9)  3.135 ms
 5  41.215.128.162 (41.215.128.162)  9.518 ms * *
 6  195.229.27.133 (195.229.27.133)  60.395 ms  59.662 ms  58.977 ms
 7  5.195.70.160 (5.195.70.160)  59.607 ms  59.758 ms  59.768 ms
 8  195.229.5.217 (195.229.5.217)  175.001 ms
    195.229.3.179 (195.229.3.179)  172.950 ms
    195.229.3.177 (195.229.3.177)  172.966 ms
 9  80.249.213.240 (80.249.213.240)  175.938 ms * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  ae4.cs2.lga5.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.28.71)  246.216 ms * *
14  ae34.mpr1.ewr4.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.20.85)  245.481 ms  245.694 ms
 246.955 ms
15  208.184.34.238.IPYX-076763-900-ZYO.zip.zayo.com (208.184.34.238)
 245.855 ms  244.600 ms  243.344 ms
16  cs90.cs89new.v.ewr.nyinternet.net (96.47.77.210)  249.689 ms  248.070
ms  249.946 ms
17  96.47.66.42.static.nyinternet.net (96.47.66.42)  250.092 ms  247.004 ms
 246.283 ms
18  pkg0.nyi.freebsd.org (96.47.72.71)  251.058 ms  251.621 ms  246.661 ms
root@gw:/home/wash #
root@gw:/home/wash # pkg update
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.conf: Timeout was
reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.txz: Timeout was
reached
repository FreeBSD-ports has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.pkg: Timeout was
reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.tzst: Failed writing
received data to disk/application
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.tzst: Failed
writing received data to disk/application
Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/meta.conf: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/meta.txz: Timeout
was reached
repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/data.pkg: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/data.tzst: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/packagesite.pkg:
Timeout was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/packagesite.tzst:
Failed writing received data to disk/application
Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods
Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue...
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/meta.conf: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/meta.txz: Timeout
was reached
repository FreeBSD-base has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/data.pkg: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/data.tzst: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/packagesite.pkg:
Timeout was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/packagesite.tzst:
Timeout was reached
Unable to update repository FreeBSD-base
Error updating repositories!
root@gw:/home/wash #

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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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