fail to fetch vulnxml file each night, as seen in daily security, run output.

Ernie Luzar luzar722 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 14:29:57 UTC 2015


William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 09/02/15 09:05, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>> Hello list;
>>
>> I get the following message in the daily security run output on both 
>> my 10.1 and 10.2 systems. Both which were installed from scratch 
>> using a cdisc1.iso file.
>>
>> Checking for packages with security vulnerabilities:
>> pkg: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2: No route to host
>> pkg: cannot fetch vulnxml file
>>
>> -- End of security output --
>>
>>
>> Is this normal by design?
>
>
> 'No route to host' means networking issue. I get the same thing 
> whenever I disconnect my Cable modem overnight, which I often do. Make 
> sure your networking is working AOK overnight when that fetch is 
> attempted.
>
>
My network is on 7/24 so that is not the problem.
When I launch http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2 in my 
browser I get a 404.
This means the vuln.xml.bz2  is not present.


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