"freebsd-update fetch", fetching public key failed.

[Raqibul Hassan]

Hello everyone,

I am a newcomer to the Unix world and this is my first post here.

I am trying to upgrade FreeBSD to a newer version with a failure.

$ sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.0-RC2
Password:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update3.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update6.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update5.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update4.freebsd.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

uname -a returns

$ uname -a
FreeBSD stratus.speedmail.co 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #0 r303856: Mon Aug  8 21:34:58 UTC 2016  root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Networks seems to be working fine

$ ping -c 4 update.freebsd.org
PING update5.freebsd.org (204.9.55.80): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.9.55.80: icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=317.293 ms
64 bytes from 204.9.55.80: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=318.738 ms
64 bytes from 204.9.55.80: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=322.386 ms
64 bytes from 204.9.55.80: icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=323.632 ms

Tried the above solution but also failed:

$ sudo freebsd-update -s 204.9.55.80 fetch
Looking up 204.9.55.80 mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from 204.9.55.80... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

Can anybody please help? Thanks in advance!

 

[SirDice]

You cannot use freebsd-update(8) on -STABLE versions. It only works for -RELEASE versions. If you want to move to 11.0-RELEASE (11.0-PRERELEASE at this time, it hasn't been released yet) you'll have to do a source update.