update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Hi,

2008/10/7 Edwin Groothuis:
>> $ freebsd-update fetch
>> Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
> I've heard this before and it is caused by resolvers (most likely
> your router?) which don't understand requests for SRV records.
>
> Use your ISPs nameservers instead of your router and it should be
> fine.

This issue and its fix have been described here:

http://www.nabble.com/misc-127498:-update.freebsd.org-does-not-exist-td19572945.html

I was already using my ISP nameserver so it was not the problem.

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Zbigniew Szalbot