freebsd-update newbie

[Kyle Dippery]

Hello,

I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable
with cvsup.  I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system,
well, updated.

First try, 'freebsd-update fetch' yielded a number of failure
messages regarding the public key.  Found a fetch address to get the
key manually, put it in /var/db/freebsd-update, and ran again.  Now
I get:

hostname# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

This is the case even when rule 1 of ipfw is 'allow all from any to any'.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Kyle
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