On Mon 2008-10-06 10:39:42 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am not sure why but whenever I do: > > $ freebsd-update fetch > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > but if type: > $ portsnap fetch > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... done. > > Many thanks for any hint as to what may be wrong with > update.FreeBSD.org on this machine! A similar problem to this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/173725.html It may be your ISP's nameservers do not support SRV record lookups. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"