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Date:      Thu, 26 May 2005 13:18:48 +0200
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fetch
Message-ID:  <20050526131848.2aff4950@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <000501c55fc7$e4f10ae0$6601a8c0@GRANT>
References:  <000501c55fc7$e4f10ae0$6601a8c0@GRANT>

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"Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote:

> I recently installed 5.2.1 Release on a nice new box. everything works=20
> except I cant Fetch any port.
>=20
> "Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again."
>=20
> Getting this message on almost every port.
>=20
> Any ideas?

Does it work if you first ping the server holding the port files
and then try again?

I once had a similar problem which turned out to be DNS related.

The DNS server of my D-Link 664T seems to be buggy.

My work around is to use named as DNS cache and avoid
buying D-Link in the future.

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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