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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:52:21 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HOWTO use the Ports behind a firewall
Message-ID:  <00022814545200.00536@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <200002261236.NAA47254@saturn.kn-bremen.de>

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Hello,

-I did what you instructed below

Modify /root/.profile by adding the following lines :-

HTTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194:3128
FTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194

-Still I get the following error message

fetch: ftp.idsoftware.com: Host name lookup failure 
  

Looking forward to your feedback

danny

dannyh@idx.com.au                         


On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Juergen Lock wrote:
> In article <00022718170302.00322@freebsd.freebsd.org> you write:
> 
> >Ususally if I want to ftp into ftp.freebsd.org I would type in
> >
> >ftp 192.168.0.1
> >anonymous@ftp.freebsd.org
> >dannyh@idx.com.au
> 
> >1) What exactly do I have to do to get the ports to install behind Winproxy my
> >firewall?
> 
> ports use fetch(1) to get their distfiles, if you look at fetch's
> manpage you'll see you can set a FTP_PROXY environment variable to
> do this. (you may also want to set HTTP_PROXY for distfiles that are
> at http:// links.)  that you'll then either just set in your .profile
> or put it in /etc/make.conf as a FETCH_ENV=... line.
> 
>  HTH,
> -- 
> Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> (remove dot foo from address to reply)
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