sa-update fails - no DNS for updates.spamassassin.org

[Mike Clarke]

I'm unable to update my SpamAssassin rules. It appears that there's no DNS data for updates.spamassassin.org. I don't think it's a problem with own  DNS settings because I get the same problem from a computer in a totally different location using a different DNS server.

curlew:/root# pkg info -x spamassassin
spamassassin-3.4.0_10

curlew:/root# sa-update -D                                                      
Jun 10 12:11:02.775 [9323] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all                  
Jun 10 12:11:02.775 [9323] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG                    
Jun 10 12:11:02.775 [9323] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.4.0             
Jun 10 12:11:02.776 [9323] dbg: generic: Perl 5.016003, PREFIX=/usr/local, DEF_RULES_DIR=/usr/local/share/spamassassin, LOCAL_RULES_DIR=/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin, LOCAL_STATE_DIR=/var/db/spamassassin                                                     
Jun 10 12:11:02.776 [9323] dbg: config: timing enabled                          
Jun 10 12:11:02.777 [9323] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen.                     
Jun 10 12:11:02.783 [9323] dbg: generic: sa-update version svn1475932           
Jun 10 12:11:02.783 [9323] dbg: generic: using update directory: /var/db/spamassassin/3.004000
Jun 10 12:11:02.867 [9323] dbg: diag: perl platform: 5.016003 freebsd           
Jun 10 12:11:02.868 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Digest::SHA, version 5.71
Jun 10 12:11:02.868 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: HTML::Parser, version 3.71
Jun 10 12:11:02.868 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Net::DNS, version 0.75
Jun 10 12:11:02.868 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: NetAddr::IP, version 4.069
Jun 10 12:11:02.869 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Time::HiRes, version 1.9725
Jun 10 12:11:02.869 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Archive::Tar, version 1.82
Jun 10 12:11:02.869 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: IO::Zlib, version 1.10
Jun 10 12:11:02.869 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module not installed: Digest::SHA1 ('require' failed)
Jun 10 12:11:02.869 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: MIME::Base64, version 3.13
Jun 10 12:11:02.869 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: DB_File, version 1.826
Jun 10 12:11:02.870 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Net::SMTP, version 2.31
Jun 10 12:11:02.870 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module not installed: Mail::SPF ('require' failed)
Jun 10 12:11:02.870 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module not installed: Geo::IP ('require' failed)
Jun 10 12:11:02.870 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module not installed: Razor2::Client::Agent ('require' failed)
Jun 10 12:11:02.870 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: IO::Socket::IP, version 0.29
Jun 10 12:11:02.870 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: IO::Socket::INET6, version 2.69
Jun 10 12:11:02.871 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: IO::Socket::SSL, version 1.992
Jun 10 12:11:02.871 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Compress::Zlib, version 2.048
Jun 10 12:11:02.871 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module not installed: Mail::DKIM ('require' failed)
Jun 10 12:11:02.871 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: DBI, version 1.631
Jun 10 12:11:02.871 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Getopt::Long, version 2.38
Jun 10 12:11:02.871 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: LWP::UserAgent, version 6.06
Jun 10 12:11:02.871 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: HTTP::Date, version 6.02
Jun 10 12:11:02.872 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Encode::Detect, version 1.01
Jun 10 12:11:02.872 [9323] dbg: diag: [...] module not installed: Net::Patricia ('require' failed)
Jun 10 12:11:02.873 [9323] dbg: gpg: Searching for 'gpg'                        
Jun 10 12:11:02.873 [9323] dbg: util: current PATH is: /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/bin:/root/bin
Jun 10 12:11:02.873 [9323] dbg: util: executable for gpg was found at /usr/local/bin/gpg
Jun 10 12:11:02.874 [9323] dbg: gpg: found /usr/local/bin/gpg
Jun 10 12:11:02.874 [9323] dbg: gpg: release trusted key id list: 5E541DC959CB8BAC7C78DFDC4056A61A5244EC45 0C2B1D7175B852C64B3CDC716C55397824F434CE
Jun 10 12:11:02.875 [9323] dbg: channel: attempting channel updates.spamassassin.org
Jun 10 12:11:02.875 [9323] dbg: channel: using existing directory /var/db/spamassassin/3.004000/updates_spamassassin_org
Jun 10 12:11:02.876 [9323] dbg: channel: channel cf file /var/db/spamassassin/3.004000/updates_spamassassin_org.cf
Jun 10 12:11:02.876 [9323] dbg: channel: channel pre file /var/db/spamassassin/3.004000/updates_spamassassin_org.pre
Jun 10 12:11:02.876 [9323] dbg: channel: metadata version = 1588424, from file /var/db/spamassassin/3.004000/updates_spamassassin_org.cf
Jun 10 12:11:02.881 [9323] dbg: dns: query failed: 0.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org => no nameservers
Jun 10 12:11:02.882 [9323] dbg: dns: query failed: mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org => no nameservers
channel: no 'mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org' record found, channel failed
Jun 10 12:11:02.883 [9323] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 4

curlew:/root# nslookup
> mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org: No answer
> updates.spamassassin.org
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

** server can't find updates.spamassassin.org: NXDOMAIN
> spamassassin.org
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   spamassassin.org
Address: 192.87.106.226

-- 
Mike Clarke