From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 21:28:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F9816A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:28:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-208-53-189.new.rr.com [24.208.53.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 456DD43D5C for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:28:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from jericho.polands.org (jericho.polands.org [172.16.1.35]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iANLShRZ080779; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:28:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from jericho.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jericho.polands.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iANLSrfR016230; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:28:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@jericho.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by jericho.polands.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iANLSrkq016229; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:28:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:28:53 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: Ralph Message-ID: <20041123212853.GA16215@polands.org> References: <200411232158.53865.4711@chello.at> <20041123212208.81596.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041123212208.81596.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you "make install" without direct internet access? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:28:49 -0000 On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:22:07PM -0800, Ralph wrote: > > 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. > > > 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? > If you have ssh access out through the firewall, you can tunnel DNS (and http/ftp) requests through a *well-connected* Unix host. HTH, -- Regards, Doug