update.FreeBSD.org unresponsive?

[Mark Martinec]

Whatever you did, it started to work now normally. Thank you!
(no changes at our side)

   Mark



2016-10-12 16:29, Mark Martinec wrote:
> Trying to upgrade a couple of hosts (11.0-RC2, 11.0-RC3, 
> 10.3-RELEASE-p10)
> to 11.0 (using: freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.0-RELEASE), and it seems
> the fetch(1) always fails with a timeout. Even a simple (freebsd-update 
> fetch)
> in an attempt to bump a 10.3-RELEASE-p9 to 10.3-RELEASE-p10 now fails
> with a timeout, while previously it worked reliably and fast.
> 
> The interesting thing is that both the ping and ping6 to 
> update.FreeBSD.org
> work flawlessly with no packet loss.
> 
> I tried it several times yesterday, and again today. Our network
> connectivity is otherwise good and fast. To rule out a possibility
> of a firewall or routing issue I even tried it from a different
> network (different ISP), and also over Hurricane-Electric tunnel.
> Same thing over IPv4 or IPv6. Going through a web proxy doesn't
> help either.
> 
> tcpdump / wireshark shows that the three-way SYN handshake succeeds,
> then the client sends a GET, re-sends the packet several times,
> but nothing comes back any more. Or sometimes even the SYN handshake
> fails to complete.
> 
> Tried to use curl to fetch the same file, it fails too:
> 
> $ curl -6
> http://update.FreeBSD.org/11.0-RC3/amd64/t/78e79429ffc2730cbb467270372d754165c6a0812805d9a0522d412b3e9b7d7e
> curl: (7) Failed to connect to update.FreeBSD.org port 80: Operation 
> timed out
> 
> $ curl -4
> http://update.FreeBSD.org/11.0-RC3/amd64/t/78e79429ffc2730cbb467270372d754165c6a0812805d9a0522d412b3e9b7d7e
> curl: (56) Recv failure: Operation timed out
> 
> 
> So, do we just need to be patient, or is the update.FreeBSD.org hosed?
> 
>   Mark