Fetching 2 metadata files... failed (freebsd-update)

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Hi,

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I upgraded a 12-stable system @r349995 to 12-release-p10 @r352201.

Before upgrading, I checked to make sure FREEBSD_UPDATE was not present in
/etc/src.conf. Then downloaded sources, make cleanworld buildworld buildkernel
installkernel mergemaster -p installworld mergemaster -Ui reboot then make
check-old delete-old delete-old-libs reboot again

Found that freebsd-update still not installed, so cd into
/usr/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update && make && make install

freebsd-update was found but couldn't find any servers so copied
/var/db/etcupdate/current/etc/freebsd-update.conf into /etc

Now it finds the server to update from but it fails to get the metadata like
this:

# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... failed.

files and perms in /var/db/freebsd-update look like this:

drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel   512B Sep 11 21:52 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   225B Aug 20 18:36
cae42a89f90be555b530a759cd400925bce03ed73ee78e665bef3fe5293e872f
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   130B Sep 11 21:52 filelist
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512B Sep 11 21:52 files
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0B Sep 11 21:52 patchlist
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   800B Aug 20 18:36 pub.ssl
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    75B Sep 11 21:52 serverlist
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    75B Sep 11 21:52 serverlist_full
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    25B Sep 11 21:52 serverlist_tried
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   150B Sep 11 21:52 tINDEX.new
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0B Sep 11 21:52 tINDEX.present
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   113B Sep 11 21:52 tag.new

What am I doing wrong? There's plenty of space on the system.

thanks,
-- 
J.
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