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

[andrew clarke]

On Mon 2008-10-06 10:39:42 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszalbot at gmail.com) wrote:

> I am not sure why but whenever I do:
> 
> $ freebsd-update fetch
> Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> 
> but if type:
> $ portsnap fetch
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... done.
> 
> Many thanks for any hint as to what may be wrong with
> update.FreeBSD.org on this machine!

A similar problem to this:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/173725.html

It may be your ISP's nameservers do not support SRV record lookups.