On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:31:23PM -0800, Ralph wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:31, Ralph wrote: > > > > > But when I do a make install I can't fetch anything... > > > > > thoughts? > > > > > If you have ssh access out through the firewall, you can tunnel DNS > > (and http/ftp) requests through a *well-connected* Unix host. > > So are we saying that the fetch command doesn't work > without external DNS resolution? That's a crock - > that makes it unusable here... anyone have options to > resolve this? > I wouldn't be so hard on the fetch command. If you don't have external DNS resolution then a lot of things won't work. I was once stuck in an office with limited http/ftp access, thus, no fetch command. I did have browser http access after I authenticated to Novell's BorderMangler. I manually retrieved the tar balls I needed for each port I wanted to install. It was painfully, slow, and I never got all the tar balls I needed because I wasn't good at following the dependencies.
You may want to consider doing a "make fetch" on a machine that has unhindered access, then burning those tar balls to a CD-ROM. -- Regards, Doug _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
