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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