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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:22:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ralph <wildjeep01@yahoo.com>
To:        Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ralph <wildjeep01@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: How do you "make install" without direct internet access?
Message-ID:  <20041123212208.81596.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200411232158.53865.4711@chello.at>

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--- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> wrote:

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> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:31, Ralph wrote:
> > Hey, I've got a proxy-out connection where these
> boxes
> > are installed.  In other words, the only way to
> get
> > out to the internet is through the http/ftp proxy.
>  So
> > in my /etc/profile I have a line
> >
> > HTTP_PROXY=my.internal.proxy:80
> > export HTTP_PROXY
> >
> >  But when I do a make install I can't fetch
> > anything... thoughts?
> >
> 
> You need to set FTP_PROXY, if you want to fetch ftp
> via proxy. 
> Refer to 'man 3 fetch' for the datails.
> 
> Cheers,
> ch
> 
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actually, since I was in csh, the setenv FTP_PROXY
my.internal.proxy:80 worked like a charm, except that,
for some reason, fetch refuses to work without
internet DNS resolution.  As with our environment, no
internal hosts have external DNS resolution - how do
you solve that?

Thanks.


		
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