Error message with portsnap

2010-08-30 Thread Jerry
Portsnap, which had always worked flawlessly on my FreeBSD-8.1 / amd64 machine, had suddenly started spewing out this error message(s): == Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from

Re: Error message with portsnap

2010-08-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/08/2010 24:23:52, Jerry wrote: Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... fetch: http://portsnap6.FreeBSD.org/t/1ad44e525a0145a9daea915d8a8827be69a292caf91f9e22aac825eed3be2e41: No address record Looks like a transient problem with the DNS.