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

[Steven Susbauer]

matt donovan wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steven Susbauer
><stupendoussteve at hotmail.com <mailto:stupendoussteve at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName
>     update.FreeBSD.org <http://update.FreeBSD.org>" is not changed to
>     "ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org <http://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 <http://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 <http://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.
>
>
>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)
>
update.freebsd.org does not have a DNS entry associated with it, could
that be part of the problem I'm having? (just-ping.com gets Unknown Host
from 34 systems around the world)