From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 21:31:25 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 4BB9216A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53406.mail.yahoo.com (web53406.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D687B43D58 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:31:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wildjeep01@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 91669 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Nov 2004 21:31:24 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=IgHJ50xjOGLK4z4E1AzwtZWjRLB77mJq5rZ0kILqJltIDHs+TwzAdVHpgsrZNHdFHHowzz9rXzaBvkySEsdlM8zBzbgBIlYVLfL+PEZbfuzGAsEKsDKShLjmy28ZJ0IenII7C2KMWfHq9jJLuZ5Gk5xY2Ov/pg97bFUJaw9oW5o= ; Message-ID: <20041123213123.91666.qmail@web53406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.65.68.10] by web53406.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:31:23 PST Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:31:23 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph To: Doug Poland In-Reply-To: <20041123212853.GA16215@polands.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 21:31:25 -0000 --- Doug Poland 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