Installing ports

[Lowell Gilbert]

Mark <boxend at redtick.homeunix.com> writes:

> > 
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software
> > > using the ports collection. After typing "make install" everything 
> > > seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after
> > > a few minutes:
> > > 
> > > fetch time out
> > > 
> > > It seemed to me that the mirror servers are not uptodate or that
> > > some filenames have changed in the meantime, because fetching data
> > > from ftp-servers worked a few times. 
> > > But in nearly all cases I had to copy the files manually in
> > > /usr/ports/distfiles as "make install" finally suggested.
> > > 
> > > So I installed a new ports-collection with sysinstall over ftp but
> > > things haven't changed. I'm a little confused, because fetching data
> > > from FreeSD ftp-servers doesn't work too (remember that some fetches
> > > were successful!).
> > > 
> > > Please help me,
> > > Florian
> > > 
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > Florian Hengstberger
> > > e0025265 at student.tuwien.ac.at
> > > http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0025265
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Are you behind a proxy?? I had a box behind squid once, 
> had to set fetch to look for the squid server

Or maybe behind a firewall that is messing up FTP?
[Maybe the fetches that succeeded were all via HTTP?]