freebsd-update "can't find update.FreeBSD.org"

[matt donovan]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steven Susbauer <
stupendoussteve at hotmail.com> wrote:

> freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName
> update.FreeBSD.org" is not changed to "ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org"
> in /etc/freebsd-update.conf.
>
> This happens on at least 6.3, I believe it is also the case in later
> versions but am unsure (7-RELEASE and later kill my networking card due
> to a kernel regression).
>
> I am wanting input before writing up a PR, to see if in fact I am just
> some isolated case, or if it has been fixed already in newer versions.
>
> uname -a:
>
> FreeBSD thinkpad.lan 6.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct
> 1 05:34:19 UTC 2008
> root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
>
> Nonfunctional:
>
> thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org...
> fetch: http://update.FreeBSD.org/6.3-RELEASE/i386/latest.ssl: No address
> record
> failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
> With update1:
>
> thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch
> Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org...
> latest.ssl                                    100% of  512  B  123 kBps
> done.
> Fetching metadata index...
> 344cfb64472cacb781688b5de744795f140233e84105c4100% of  225  B   52 kBps
> done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
>
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update.freebsd.org should work
 Considering that update1.freebsd.org is a mirror for update.freebsd.org. it
works fine here for update.freebsd.org ever since I updated to 7.x from
6.2(tested freebsd-update on 6.2)