Cannot update anymore: is packages-beta.netgate.com host deleted ?

p_bear

Hello,

I can't update pfsense anymore. On the web interface dashboard, it says "Unable to check for upgrade"
So I followed the documentation and I tried several commands from cli:

pkg-static clean -ay ; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade

But I always get the error message

packages-beta.netgate.com: No address record

According to the doc it could be a dns problem.
And .. yes, it seems the packages-beta.netgate.com host does not exist anymore.

dig packages-beta.netgate.com @8.8.8.8 | grep 'IN'
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 45998
;packages-beta.netgate.com.	IN	A
netgate.com.		599	IN	SOA	ns1.netgate.com. admin.netgate.com. 2020640295 28800 7200 1209600 600

I've also checked with an online dns tool (https://www.ultratools.com)

What can I do ?
Thank you

Gertjan

@pee_bear :

dig packages-beta.netgate.com +short

tells me that "packages-beta.netgate.com" is .... nx or unkown.

Better : even Google doesn't know 'who' that is. That's rather significant.

Check some very recent forum messages : I guess Netgate is redoing the entire update/upgrade system.

So, special case : DNS issue, yes, but not on your - or my - side ;)

p_bear

@gertjan

Definitely.

@gertjan said in Cannot update anymore: is packages-beta.netgate.com host deleted ?:

So, special case : DNS issue, yes, but not on your - or my - side ;)

Definitely. We can't fix that. We could manually add an entry host = ip if we'd know the corresponding ip.

It's strange to make a so big change (or mistake?) for a company which the purpose is the security !?