Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700 From: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Name resolution Message-ID: <d19aaf66b20e478b0b0777d197c737d4@prodigy.net>
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Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I downloaded just a few days ago) I get this: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/ Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz: No address record pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/ Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz' by URL I checked inetd.conf and resolv.conf. ftp is working in inetd.conf but when I went to look in resolv.conf, there was no file by that name. So I created one with my local nameservers and the ISP's nameservers. All of my servers are connected to local network and public. I have the name servers set to respond to requests from public network only (I do not want anyone finding out the address numbers I use on the private network) But I am not sure whether these changes require that I reboot the machine. The connection is live and working. I can ping another of my static ip addresses, and other machines running on the private nework. But if I ping one of my websites by name the ping cannot find it. so I know it is a resolver issue, with no name server running on this machine. I have to assume there is a local resolver, but since it is just a library, and not a process, as I understand it, I am thinking that something needs to be redone to use the file with the changes. This is because after adding the file /etc/resolv.conf I still get the above complaints. I am doing this to keep in step with FreeBSD and I have a lot of software I want to install for use with email. In the past I have bypassed ports with programs like Apache, php, mysql and have had little problems. But now I am 'growing up' to the idea that managing changes and removals will be much easier if I do use ports. I just need to figure out what it wants and expects, and what I can and should expect. For instance, If I want to install Apache with php with gd and a lot of other extensions that have to be built separately by hand so php can include them and/or use them, how is that accomplished with ports? Or, suppose I have Apache already installed and want to install ssl. In the manual method ssl has to be prebuilt and configured specific to Apache before Apache is built. Could I expect a series of configure questions from the ports installation process to pick and choose what I want included, or how I want it configured? Thanks in advance Jeff K
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