Command 'freebsd-update fetch' hangs, and never finishes

Helllo

I have a problem with the command freebsd-update fetch.
i currently run the following version of FreeBSD:

[edwin@ottopedi ~/Maintenance]$ uname -a
FreeBSD ottopedi 12.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE r371126 GENERIC  amd64

I try to execute the command freebsd-update fetch, it starts and then just
hangs, with following output:
[edwin@ottopedi ~]$ sudo freebsd-update fetch
Password:
src component not installed, skipped
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.3-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
The following files will be updated as part of updating to
12.3-RELEASE-p1:
/bin/freebsd-version
/boot/kernel/kernel
/boot/kernel/libalias.ko
/lib/libalias.so.7
/usr/lib/libalias.a
/usr/lib/libalias_p.a
/usr/lib32/libalias.a
/usr/lib32/libalias.so.7
/usr/lib32/libalias_p.a
(END)

If I cancel the job and optimistically suppose everything will be OK, the
command freebsd-update install returns as is to be expected):
[edwin@ottopedi ~]$ sudo freebsd-update install
Password:
src component not installed, skipped
No updates are available to install.
Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
[edwin@ottopedi ~]$

Any idea on how to continue to solve this?

Kind regards,

Edwin Ancaer

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