Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > when running "freebsd-update fetch" on FreeBSD 6.x I get the error: > > Fetching public key... > fetch: http://update.freebsd.org/i386/6.1/pub.key: No address record > Error fetching updates >
I've seen the "No address record" in the past in few of my machines. The update.freebsd.org address is a pool of addresses actually and AFAIR there were some problems with DNS for some people. I don't recall the exact cause, but you will get over it by specifying a specific server in freebsd-update.conf, like update1.freebsd.org This may not be your only problem though. > > I've previously had a search around and compared the config file with > that present by default on FreeBSD 7.x (which works without any > hacking etc) but I never did work out what is wrong or what should be > in a good config file. For one thing the directory its looking in for > the pub.key seems to be hardcoded as "/i386/6.1/" or at least that > path is not present in my conf file, perhaps its possible to add an > additional line to the conf file to modify this... Can anyone point me > in the right direction? A quick visit to http://update.freebsd.org does not show this directory - although this maybe intentional. I suggest you try the server change and if you connect but still fail to get the key, then go on and hack the script. I don't have a 6.1 machine around, but freebsd-update is just a sh script and you should be able to find what's going on. There is nothing hardcoded in it, at least in the version distributed with 7.x. In fact I would try running the 7.x version on this system. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
