fetch troubleshooting

[Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल]

>>>>> Gary Gee Kien Lum writes:
    Gary> FreeBSD ports maintainer;

    Gary> I am having trouble fetching distfiles when compiling ports.

    Gary> Shown below is a typical response when I run make in the directory of the target port:

    Gary> /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof # make===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found=> lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.=> Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/.fetch: http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/.fetch: ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/NEW/.fetch: ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from http://www.lerctr.org/lsof/.fetch: http://www.lerctr.org/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/lsof/.fetch: ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/lsof/NEW/.fetch: ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/.fetch: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/NEW/.fetch: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/admin-tools/lsof/.fetch: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/admin-tools/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/admin-tools/lsof/NEW/.fetch: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/admin-tools/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/admin/lsof/.fetch: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/admin/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/admin/lsof/NEW/.fetch: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/admin/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/tools/admin/lsof/.fetch: ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/tools/admin/lsof/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/tools/admin/lsof/NEW/.fetch: ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/tools/admin/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.tau.ac.il/pub/unix/admin/.fetch: ftp://ftp.tau.ac.il/pub/unix/admin/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/lsof_4.80B.freebsd.tar.bz2: No address record=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.*** Error code 1Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof.

The error 'No address record' implies that fetch is not able to resolve
domain names, please make sure that DNS servers listed in
/etc/resolv.conf are resolving. And make sure a valid gateway is set.

HTH
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल                      http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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