From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 12:36:35 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 35DEB16A4CE for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 12:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iwmail.xpdial.com (iwgate.xpdial.com [68.156.89.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D9643D48 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 12:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@s-wit.net) Received: from [24.73.52.111] by iwmail.xpdial.com (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.4.1)); Sat, 29 May 2004 15:41:00 -0400 Message-ID: <001501c445b4$3e13c790$6665a8c0@Biggie> From: "SWIT" To: "Bill Moran" References: <002101c44595$a0917f30$6665a8c0@Biggie> <40B8B707.9040904@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 15:36:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 cc: freebsd Subject: Re: unable to install from floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 19:36:35 -0000 Hello, thanks for the help. However I see no were to put in the IP address for the ftp server. Its already there in the list of all the ftp servers to d/l the files from. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" To: "SWIT" Cc: "freebsd" Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: unable to install from floppies > SWIT wrote: > > Hello, > > I am tyring to install from the floppies. > > I get to the point were I choose the ftp server to d/l from. > > then it says can't resolve the ftp.freebsd.org or any of the servers. > > I tried a static ip and a dhcp ip and neither would work but other computers > > on my network will find ftp.freebsd.org (all windows units). > > > > I am behind a sonicwall and then a linksys router and have no trouble going > > to any site on the net so not sure why I can't get a resolve. > > I tried several different namservers and none made a difference. > > Not sure what's wrong, but a workaround would be to find out the IP address > of the FTP server you want to use, and use that instead: > > bash-2.05b$ host ftp.freebsd.org > ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50 > ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73 > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com >