From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 22: 0:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12808.mail.yahoo.com (web12808.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91B3F37B40A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011016050038.70043.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [61.11.40.155] by web12808.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:00:38 PDT Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:00:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Rohit Panda Subject: problem using ports To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1647742589-1003208438=:68569" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0-1647742589-1003208438=:68569 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi, iam having trouble using the ports collection.Actually we are connecting our computer to the internet through a proxy server.so we normally cant do a ftp from this machine.first we have to connect to the ftp proxy in the server,and then from there connect to the place,ie, ftp>open ip address(address of proxy) then when it will ask for user name username:anonymous@ftp.freebsd.org password : some mail id. now my ports collection is directly trying to connect to the specific site i think and thats why its not getting connected.How do i configure and what to configure to make to work. can anybody help me. thanx rohit --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. --0-1647742589-1003208438=:68569 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

hi,

iam having trouble using the ports collection.Actually we are connecting our computer to the internet through a proxy server.so we normally cant do a ftp from this machine.first we have to connect to the ftp proxy in the server,and then from there connect to the place,ie,

ftp>open  ip address(address of proxy)

then when it will ask for user name

username:anonymous@ftp.freebsd.org

password : some mail id.

now my ports collection is directly trying to connect to the specific site i think and thats why its not getting connected.How do i configure and what to configure to make to work.

can anybody help me.

thanx

rohit

 


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