From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 22:05:57 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 1A01E16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:05:57 +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 6D11F43D2F for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:05:56 +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 iANM5pRZ080875; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:05:51 -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 iANM61Rg016326; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:06:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@jericho.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by jericho.polands.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iANM61C8016325; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:06:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:06:01 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: Ralph Message-ID: <20041123220601.GB16215@polands.org> References: <20041123212853.GA16215@polands.org> <20041123213123.91666.qmail@web53406.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041123213123.91666.qmail@web53406.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 22:05:57 -0000 On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:31:23PM -0800, Ralph wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:31, Ralph wrote: > > > > > But when I do a make install I can't fetch anything... > > > > > thoughts? > > > > > If you have ssh access out through the firewall, you can tunnel DNS > > (and http/ftp) requests through a *well-connected* Unix host. > > 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? > I wouldn't be so hard on the fetch command. If you don't have external DNS resolution then a lot of things won't work. I was once stuck in an office with limited http/ftp access, thus, no fetch command. I did have browser http access after I authenticated to Novell's BorderMangler. I manually retrieved the tar balls I needed for each port I wanted to install. It was painfully, slow, and I never got all the tar balls I needed because I wasn't good at following the dependencies. You may want to consider doing a "make fetch" on a machine that has unhindered access, then burning those tar balls to a CD-ROM. -- Regards, Doug