--- Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > Cheers, > ch > > - -- > Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | OpenPGP KeyID > 0x3BCA53BE > OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and > http://pgp.mit.edu > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFBo6SN09WjGjvKU74RAhKpAJoCsy/FrgviYgEfpHdGh54+tA9/ggCcCI03 > pCgfxyDT9r7zEK6SqX0JgHI= > =YEhP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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? Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"