Freebsd-update question

[Glen Barber]

Hi Richard,

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Richard Mahlerwein<mahlerrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a GENERIC kernel.
>
> mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
> Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching public key from update.freebsd.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
> Thinking perhaps a networking issue, I checked the machine is accessible...
> mobius# ping update.freebsd.org
> PING update1.FreeBSD.org (72.21.59.252): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=64.557 ms
> 64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=64.580 ms
> ^C
> --- update1.FreeBSD.org ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 64.557/64.569/64.580/0.012 ms
>
> It responds with update1, so I tried again using update1.freebsd.org (and several others that I could ping) but it always gives me the same response.
>
> A quick check of the handbook and the man pages for both freebsd-update(5) and freebsd-update.conf(8) didn't tell me much about this.
>
> I'm sure it's something stupidly simple.  Does anyone have some ideas?
>

There's quite a bit of useful information missing.

For starters, what is the output of 'uname -a'?

-- 
Glen Barber