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Subject: Re: portinstall: fetch(1) doesn't fetch
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Michael L. Hostbaek wrote:
> h p (regnans) writes:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I don't understand the behaviour of fetch(1). Whenever I try to fetch
>>from an URL, I get anwers like
>>    > fetch http://www.google.com
>>    fetch: http://www.google.com: No address record
> 
> 
> Do you have any weird environment variables set ? Like
> FETCH_BIND_ADDRESS or maybe HTTP_PROXY ?
> 
> Check out 'man 3 fetch' for more info.
> 
> /mich
> 

Run it using the verbose -v option as well.  It might show more 
interesting output.

Chris