"Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I recently installed 5.2.1 Release on a nice new box. everything works 
> except I cant Fetch any port.
> 
> "Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again."
> 
> Getting this message on almost every port.
> 
> Any ideas?

Does it work if you first ping the server holding the port files
and then try again?

I once had a similar problem which turned out to be DNS related.

The DNS server of my D-Link 664T seems to be buggy.

My work around is to use named as DNS cache and avoid
buying D-Link in the future.

Fabian
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