Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:28:53 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Ralph <wildjeep01@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you "make install" without direct internet access? Message-ID: <20041123212853.GA16215@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20041123212208.81596.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200411232158.53865.4711@chello.at> <20041123212208.81596.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:22:07PM -0800, Ralph wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:31, Ralph wrote: > > > Hey, I've got a proxy-out connection where these boxes are > > > installed. In other words, the only way to get out to the > > > internet is through the http/ftp proxy. So in my /etc/profile I > > > have a line > > > > > > HTTP_PROXY=my.internal.proxy:80 > > > export HTTP_PROXY > > > > > > But when I do a make install I can't fetch > > > anything... thoughts? > > > > > > > You need to set FTP_PROXY, if you want to fetch ftp via proxy. > > Refer to 'man 3 fetch' for the datails. > > > actually, since I was in csh, the setenv FTP_PROXY > my.internal.proxy:80 worked like a charm, except that, > for some reason, fetch refuses to work without > internet DNS resolution. As with our environment, no > internal hosts have external DNS resolution - how do > you solve that? > If you have ssh access out through the firewall, you can tunnel DNS (and http/ftp) requests through a *well-connected* Unix host. HTH, -- Regards, Doug
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