From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 17:56:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB83B37B43E for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01502; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:56:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: John Murphy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frustrated and furious In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Murphy wrote: > Darrell Brown wrote: > >I'm having a difficult time loading the distribution files over ftp. > >Everytime I try and download the files, I receive 'unable to resolve > >ftp.freebsd.org' Then it asks me to make sure my gateway, name server and IP > >address is correct, which my ISP confirmed. can you please help me??? > > > > 'unable to resolve' sounds like a DNS problem. Trying to resolve the ftp host is the first "network" thing the installer does. I see this problem most often when I thought I should have network connection but didn't. It would be nice (although I'm not volunteering) for sysinstall to first do something innocuous like ping the gateway to try and determine if there is a network at all before proceeding. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message