On Dec 8, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote: > Basic symptom: > > # /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. > Fetching metadata signature for 10.3-STABLE from update.FreeBSD.org... > failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up.
I had this problem a while ago. In my case, it turned out that my upstream DNS was filtering out SRV requests, which breaks freebsd-update mirror handling. My upstream DNS was via an OpenWRT box. According to their documentation (https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/dhcp.dnsmasq) in the "SIP-Phones and dnsmasq" section they say, "By default, the option filterwin2k in dnsmasq is activated, which seems to cause to block queries for SRV records." True enough, disabling "filterwin2k" in /etc/config/dhcp "fixed" my problem. I don't know if this is related to your problem, but in my case I wasn't getting *any* SRV records returned for _http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org... :-( I believe freebsd-update falls back to a standard server if no mirrors can be enumerated, but this server tends to get overloaded when security advisories come out (at least that was my experience when I had the SRV records problem) and so freebsd-update can fail. Cheers, Paul. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
