Name resolution

[jekillen]

On Oct 27, 2007, at 4:54 PM, RW wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700
> jekillen <jekillen at prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>> I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms.
>> I set up a  system with a static ip connection to the internet
>> and when I run:
>>
>> pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I
>> downloaded just a few days ago)
>>
>> I get this:
>> Error: FTP Unable to get
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/
>> Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz: No address record
>
> It's called cvsup-without-gui, but you don't actually need it because
> csup (a rewrite in C of the non-gui version of cvsup) is in the base
> system.
>
thank you; your right it is cvsup, but the handbook indicates that I
could use csup in place of cvsup in the command line on v6.2 and up.
  But that does not seem to effect the resolver issue (unless I am
mistaken here and the resolver is actually working and it is just the 
reference)
Jeff K