Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:52:32 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating freebsd without cvsup Message-ID: <432FB1B0.3060404@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200509200826.35867.vdemart1@tin.it> References: <3360624.1126887229256.JavaMail.root@pswm4.cp.tin.it> <432AF27E.10804@ashleymoran.me.uk> <200509200826.35867.vdemart1@tin.it>
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vittorio wrote: > >Well, after thourough examination and a word with the network administrator I >learnt that my FreeBSD 5.4 client cannot resolve the name (and the IP too) of >portsnap.daemonology.net because it is behind a firewall and a proxy (which >-by the way - I had already defined via both $HTTP_PROXY and $http_proxy; as >I stated in so doing "make install" under a port works flawlessly downloading >whatever is needed!). >According to the admin (windows 2000 network) portsnap is not able to use the >name resolution of the proxy as other programs like browsers can and relies >on the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf only. >Any idea for this poor newbie? >Ciao >Vittorio > > $ echo "72.21.59.250 portsnap.daemonology.net" >> /etc/hosts ---maybe?? I doubt Colin will move it anytime soon (but I've been wrong many times before...) HTH, Kevin Kinsey
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