The failure to ping the IP address is irrelevant, because the server is apparently not responding to ping requests. A legitimate choice by the admin, but a nuisance! Try "curl 64.62.136.38" (without the inverted commas). If that produces a chunk of html it suggests your problem is resolving the IP address rather than contacting the server. You apparently do not have a proper DNS server available to FreeNAS. Is your FreeNAS IP supplied by DHCP or typed in by you? What is in the gateway and DNS boxes in the GUI 'Network/Global Configuration' dialogue?[root@Familynas ~]# ping download.freenas.org
ping: cannot resolve download.freenas.org: Host name lookup failure
[root@Familynas ~]#
I don't know how to resolve a host name from FreeNAS so I ran nslookup from my kubuntu computer:\
mark@AMD64-LTS:~$ nslookup download.freenas.org
Server: 127.0.1.1
Address: 127.0.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: download.freenas.org
Address: 64.62.136.38
So I tried to ping that ip address:
[root@Familynas ~]# ping 64.62.136.38
PING 64.62.136.38 (64.62.136.38): 56 data bytes
^C
--- 64.62.136.38 ping statistics ---
21 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
FreeNAS is able to ping one of the google IP addresses:
[root@Familynas ~]# ping 64.233.176.113
PING 64.233.176.113 (64.233.176.113): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=48.669 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=45.578 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=45.923 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=46.309 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=4 ttl=44 time=45.854 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=5 ttl=44 time=46.252 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=6 ttl=44 time=45.780 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=7 ttl=44 time=46.207 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=8 ttl=44 time=45.685 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.176.113: icmp_seq=9 ttl=44 time=46.187 ms
^C
--- 64.233.176.113 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 45.578/46.244/48.669/0.844 ms
As I posted a few posts up, I did correct the url of the freenas jail templates (see attached screenshot).
Edit: What is the exact output of "nslookup download.freenas.org" on the FreeNAS box?