From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 18:23:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75B637B42C for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn214-ras26.screaming.net [212.49.249.214]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA29817 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:26:22 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frustrated and furious Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:23:06 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darrell Brown wrote: >I'm having a difficult time loading the distribution files over ftp. >Everytime I try and download the files, I receive 'unable to resolve >ftp.freebsd.org' Then it asks me to make sure my gateway, name server = and IP >address is correct, which my ISP confirmed. can you please help me??? > 'unable to resolve' sounds like a DNS problem. Can you ping the IPv4 address your ISP gave you for your name server? If you're more = comfortable using the ftp client from some other OS, you could fetch the compressed blocks of the binary distribution /bin.aa etc. using that, and then = install from (say) a FAT16 file system. Could be less frustrating. ;) John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message