It works now, maybe it was only some misconfiguration; only thing I noticed is I have to set :
export ftp_proxy="http://proxy-blah.blah:3128" That ftp/http inconsistency I cannot understand. Ciao, Leo --- Leonardo wrote: > Hi all, > I have a Gentoo PC connected to the net through a proxy that I > cannot access. > I can surf the net, but wget fails, so I cannot > emerge-webrsync. > > My proxy server is: > ftp_proxy=ftp://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128 > http_proxy=http://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128 > > When I emerge-webrsync I get: > > # emerge-webrsync -v > Fetching most recent snapshot > Attempting to fetch file dated: 20060526 > --11:10:45-- > http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20060526.tar.bz2.md5sum > => > `/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync/portage-20060526.tar.bz2.md5sum' > Resolving www.mirror.ac.uk... 194.80.135.25 > Connecting to www.mirror.ac.uk[194.80.135.25]:80... > > > And it stucks there, or via ftp: > > # emerge-webrsync -v > Fetching most recent snapshot > Attempting to fetch file dated: 20060526 > --10:54:35-- > ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20060526.tar.bz2.md5sum > => > `/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync/portage-20060526.tar.bz2.md5sum' > Resolving ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com... 213.203.218.123 > Connecting to > ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com[213.203.218.123]:21... > > > Is it because of that :21 or :80 instead of :3128? > Does anybody know if and how can I overcome the problem? > > Thanks, Ciao > Leo > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection > around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- [email protected] mailing list

