On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Richard Mahlerwein <mahlerrd at yahoo.com> wrote: > mobius# dig +short _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org srv > (returns nothing) This is typically either due either to broken SRV support in DNS, or the absence of full dns on a private network behind proxies. Perhaps you need to set HTTP_PROXY.