ARMV7 alpha-1 pkg not installing

A fresh setup of FreeBSD-14.0-ALPHA1-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20230811-136fc495615f-264678.img
boots correctly from a mechanical USB hard disk but can't seem to bootstrap pkg:
# pwd
/usr
# git
su: git: not found
# git-lite
su: git-lite: not found
# pkg
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly, please wait...
pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly/Latest/pkg.txz: No route to host
A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports: 'ports-mgmt/pkg'.
#
There's nothing obvious wrong with the network connection:
# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=116 time=27.549 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=26.108 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=26.195 ms
^C

# ping www.zefox.org
PING www.zefox.org (50.1.20.28): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=2.891 ms
64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=2.479 ms
64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=2.449 ms
64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=2.350 ms
^C

Did I forget something?

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska