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, -- Csaba R�duly, Software Engineer Sophos Anti-Virus email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sophos.com US Support: +1 888 SOPHOS 9 UK Support: +44 1235 559933
