Solved "Connection reset by peer" when trying to install pkg

[Mike L.]

I'm running 11.0-RELEASE 64-bit from an amd64 VirtualBox VM on a Windows 10 host.

It's a brand new fresh installation. The first thing I did was, as root: pkg install xorg . I got the prompt to install the real version of pkg, but I got the following error:

pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/Latest/pkg.txz: Connection reset by peer

I was able to do this just fine a few weeks ago with 11.0-RC2 , and I don't think I haven't changed anything networking-related on the host machine since then.

I noticed that on pkg.freebsd.org there is no entry for amd64, but there is for x86:64 . However, you can still navigate directly to amd64 if you use the URL given by the error message, so I don't know if that's relevant (maybe something wrong with the mirror?)

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Yuan-Yao Sung]

Which VirtualBox version do you use ?
I also got this problem lately. And I found that the problem is from the NAT Network of the newest VirtualBox (5.0.28 or 5.1.8)
According to https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=80310 , we can know that the NAT Network may cause some connections incorrectly reset.
It works fine after I downgraded to Virtualbox 5.0.26.

 

[kpa]

You may have better luck with bridge network on VirtualBox, worth a try.

 

[Mike L.]

I solved it be reverting to 5.0.26 . Thanks to both of you

 

[1init]

bridging worked for me no virtual box to complete my python course i am total newb to both (free bsd and python)

name is green terror due to my fav fish

 

[rolodato]

Found this thread through Google, can confirm that bridging worked for me as well. Running VirtualBox 5.1.8 on macOS 10.12.1 host.