From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 16:56:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA21545 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:56:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ncd.com (firewall-user@welch.ncd.com [192.43.160.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA21540 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:56:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by ncd.com; id RAA04663; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:23:38 -0800 Received: from z-code.z-code.com(192.82.56.21) by welch.ncd.com via smap (g3.0.1) id xma004656; Wed, 3 Jan 96 17:23:34 -0800 Received: from zolaris.z-code.com (zolaris.z-code.com [192.82.56.41]) by z-code.z-code.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA11364; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:54:16 -0800 Received: by zolaris.z-code.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA29103; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:52:04 -0800 From: "Ulf Zimmermann" Message-Id: <9601031652.ZM29101@zolaris.z-code.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:52:02 -0800 In-Reply-To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) "arrrgh, this was working Sunday..." (Jan 3, 15:36) References: <9601032336.AA27729@tera.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 06sep94) To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ======================================