How do you "make install" without direct internet access?

[Ralph]

--- Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:22:07PM -0800, Ralph
> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 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?
> > 
> If you have ssh access out through the firewall, you
> can tunnel DNS (and
> http/ftp) requests through a *well-connected* Unix
> host.  
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Doug
> 


So are we saying that the fetch command doesn't work
without external DNS resolution?  That's a crock -
that makes it unusable here... anyone have options to
resolve this?


		
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