Updating freebsd without cvsup
Kevin Kinsey
kdk at daleco.biz
Mon Sep 19 23:53:49 PDT 2005
vittorio wrote:
>
>Well, after thourough examination and a word with the network administrator I
>learnt that my FreeBSD 5.4 client cannot resolve the name (and the IP too) of
>portsnap.daemonology.net because it is behind a firewall and a proxy (which
>-by the way - I had already defined via both $HTTP_PROXY and $http_proxy; as
>I stated in so doing "make install" under a port works flawlessly downloading
>whatever is needed!).
>According to the admin (windows 2000 network) portsnap is not able to use the
>name resolution of the proxy as other programs like browsers can and relies
>on the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf only.
>Any idea for this poor newbie?
>Ciao
>Vittorio
>
>
$ echo "72.21.59.250 portsnap.daemonology.net" >> /etc/hosts
---maybe?? I doubt Colin will move it anytime soon (but I've been wrong
many
times before...)
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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