Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:52:02 -0800 From: "Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf@z-code.ncd.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... Message-ID: <9601031652.ZM29101@zolaris.z-code.com> In-Reply-To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) "arrrgh, this was working Sunday..." (Jan 3, 15:36) References: <9601032336.AA27729@tera.com>
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On Jan 3, 15:36, Gary Kline wrote: > Subject: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... > > > 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 >-- End of excerpt from Gary Kline Looks like you screwed up your /etc/resolv.conf. Check it, because in this file are the DNS servers for lookup. Ulf. -- Ulf Zimmermann, NCD Software, 101 Rowland Way, Suite 300, Novato, CA 94945 phone: 415-899-7941, email: ulf@z-code.ncd.com, phone-home: 510-865-0204 ====================================== FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! -------------------------------------- FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations ======================================
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