Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:52:21 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO use the Ports behind a firewall Message-ID: <00022814545200.00536@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <200002261236.NAA47254@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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Hello, -I did what you instructed below Modify /root/.profile by adding the following lines :- HTTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194:3128 FTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194 -Still I get the following error message fetch: ftp.idsoftware.com: Host name lookup failure Looking forward to your feedback danny dannyh@idx.com.au On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Juergen Lock wrote: > In article <00022718170302.00322@freebsd.freebsd.org> you write: > > >Ususally if I want to ftp into ftp.freebsd.org I would type in > > > >ftp 192.168.0.1 > >anonymous@ftp.freebsd.org > >dannyh@idx.com.au > > >1) What exactly do I have to do to get the ports to install behind Winproxy my > >firewall? > > ports use fetch(1) to get their distfiles, if you look at fetch's > manpage you'll see you can set a FTP_PROXY environment variable to > do this. (you may also want to set HTTP_PROXY for distfiles that are > at http:// links.) that you'll then either just set in your .profile > or put it in /etc/make.conf as a FETCH_ENV=... line. > > HTH, > -- > Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de> > (remove dot foo from address to reply) -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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