On 08/02/2002 15:34:53 Martin Sch�neberger wrote:

>At 14:37 08.02.2002 +0000, Henderson, Daniel wrote:
>>#wget www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip
>>--14:32:57--  http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip
>>            => `ides.zip'
>>Connecting to www.sophos.com:80...
>>www.sophos.com: Host not found.
>>
>>Is there something else I should configure in Solaris to allow this to
>>work?
>
>First of all you should find out why you can't connect to "sophos.com".
>1) sophos is down -> try later
>Solution: get the file from another server
>2) dns lookup failed -> try if you can connect to other hosts like
>"google.com" or anything else, or if you can only connect to ip adresses.
>Solution1: try another DNS server
>Solution2: reconfigure your DNS settings or even your DNS-server (if you
>are running one)

Try
nslookup www.sophos.com
ping     www.sophos.com
telnet   www.sophos.com 80

If these work, it's wget's fault.
If they don't, it's a connectivity problem.

>4) user root not allowed to connect to the internet (standard on BSD if i
>remember correctly) -> try if you can DL the file using another user
>Solution: change the user database or the firewall settings, or just don't
>connect to the internet using root :-)

Good point. Look at the prompt...

[snip]
>
>Last but not least: Try the "-d" switch with wget and have a look at the
>debug output of wget. Perhaps you find further information why you can't
>connect. If you don't, send it to this list, perhaps "we" find smth :-)
>

Very good advice indeed.
HTH,


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