Solved cannot upgrade FreeBSD 11.2 to 12.0-RELEASE

[fred974]

Hi,

I am currently running 11.2-RELEASE and I would like to upgrade to 12.0-RELEASE
When I run freebsd-update fetch, I get the following error:

src component not installed, skipped
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from update.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

I can ping the outside world and remotely ssh to the server so network connectivity is not the issue.

Thank you

 

[kfv]

Can you resolve update.FreeBSD.org? It is most likely a DNS problem, not network connectivity.

 

[fred974]

ping update.FreeBSD.org

ping: cannot resolve update.FreeBSD.org: Host name lookup failure

I adding the 8.8.8.8 into /etc/resolve.conf solve the issue

Thank you

 

[kfv]

I'm glad that your issue’s solved. If you’re using DHCP, ensure that accurate information is provided and it’s working correctly.