Well the:
[root@cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
[root@cheetah ~]# mkdir /var/db/freebsd-update
Would have done the same thing...
DNS should be fine... appears to be:
[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ dig
update.freebsd.org
; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-P2 <<>>
update.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39566
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;
update.freebsd.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
update.freebsd.org. 600 IN CNAME
update5.freebsd.org.
update5.freebsd.org. 600 IN A 204.9.55.80
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freebsd.org. 600 IN NS
ns2.isc-sns.com.
freebsd.org. 600 IN NS
ns1.isc-sns.net.
freebsd.org. 600 IN NS
ns3.isc-sns.info.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.isc-sns.net. 3600 IN A 72.52.71.1
ns1.isc-sns.net. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:470:1a::1
ns2.isc-sns.com. 3600 IN A 63.243.194.1
ns2.isc-sns.com. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:5a0:10::1
ns3.isc-sns.info. 3600 IN A 63.243.194.1
ns3.isc-sns.info. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:5a0:10::1
;; Query time: 164 msec
;; SERVER: 89.150.192.2#53(89.150.192.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 4 22:41:04 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 294
And actually it'll do this:
[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv
_http._
tcp.update.freebsd.org
_http._
tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 40 80
update6.freebsd.org.
_http._
tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 50 80
update5.freebsd.org.
_http._
tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 5 80
update3.freebsd.org.
_http._
tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 35 80
update4.freebsd.org.
Which actually returns this:
[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv
_http._
tcp.update.freebsd.org | sed -nE "s/
update.freebsd.org (has SRV
record|server selection) //p" | cut -f 1,2,4 -d ' ' | sed -e 's/\.$//' |
sort
_http._tcp.1 35
update4.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 40
update6.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 5
update3.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 50
update5.freebsd.org
You'll note however, that now...
[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ sudo freebsd-update -r
9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Password:
Looking up
update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic world/base world/doc
The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
src/src world/games world/lib32
Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
.
.
etc..
So what ever was broken is not now... and it still says "Looking up
update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found."
Thanks for trying...
>
>
> FYI: 9.3 will reach end-of-life in less than 4mos (try one of the 10.Xs).
Not a hope in hell of that they don't work on this box, but even so the
recommended path is go to the latest before the upgrade (and having not
done that in the past and ended up bricking the box, I think it still
stands.)