From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 15:37:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA05293 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:37:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from beaver.cs.washington.edu (beaver.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05279 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (tera.com [128.95.3.1]) by beaver.cs.washington.edu (8.7.2/7.1be+) with SMTP id PAA16741 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from athena.tera.com by tera.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA27729; Wed, 3 Jan 96 15:36:35 PST From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Message-Id: <9601032336.AA27729@tera.com> Subject: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:36:48 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Last Sunday I managed to auto-retrieve the file cnews.tar.Z by typing ``make'' in the /cdrom/ports dir. Now, while trying to build elm, this happened: >> elm2.4.tar.Z doesn't seem to exist on this system. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://dsinc.myxa.com/pub/elm/ dsinc.myxa.com: gethostbyname herror (2): Host name lookup failure >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/distfiles/ ftp.freebsd.org: gethostbyname herror (2): Host name lookup failure >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retreive this >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again. *** Error code 1 What did I do? I remember adding some lines to /etc/sysconfig and two new sites to /etc/resolv.conf. When I do a `ps ax' I see ncftp trying to retrieve the elm tar file... Ideas, net gurus??? gary kline