misc/127498: update.freebsd.org does not exist

[Wouter Oosterveld]

>Number:         127498
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       update.freebsd.org does not exist
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 19 14:00:14 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Wouter Oosterveld
>Release:        7.0-RELEASE-p4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD skittles.lan 7.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Sep  2 19:32:35 UTC 2008     root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
The DNS-record for update.freebsd.org does not exist anymore causing freebsd-update on 7.0-RELEASE-x install to fail.

>How-To-Repeat:
[root at skittles ~]# freebsd-update --debug fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... 
fetch: http://update.FreeBSD.org/7.0-RELEASE/i386/latest.ssl: No address record
failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.


>Fix:
Replace in /etc/freebsd-update.conf update.freebsd.org with update1.freebsd.org.

[root at skittles ~]# freebsd-update --debug fetch
Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... 
latest.ssl                                    100% of  512  B  844 kBps
done.
Fetching metadata index... 
a6857db53010191e81058701ef25632994561fb4787d48100% of  225  B  383 kBps
done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 7.0-RELEASE-p4.


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