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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