Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:31:23 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph <wildjeep01@yahoo.com> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you "make install" without direct internet access? Message-ID: <20041123213123.91666.qmail@web53406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041123212853.GA16215@polands.org>
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--- Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> wrote: > 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 > So are we saying that the fetch command doesn't work without external DNS resolution? That's a crock - that makes it unusable here... anyone have options to resolve this? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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