Are you behind a firewall. I had to set the env variable HTTP_PROXY to point to my web proxy to get pkg to work. Not sure if my error message was identical but it was some thing like URL error.
-Angelo On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Rich McAllister wrote: > Bart Smaalders wrote: >> Gayatri Tripathi wrote: > >>> And pkg refresh shows error: >>> pkg: 0/1 catalogs successfully updated: >>> pkg.opensolaris.org: node name or service name not known >>> # >>> >>> The problem is how to get back the access to pkg.opensolaris.org >>> -- >>> >> >> I'm not sure what the problem is... is your nameservice working? >> Can you ping pkg.opensolaris.org? > > I had this problem yesterday, too. I was completely baffled, and > remain > so. I suspected a name service problem, or maybe something odd about > the VMware net config since I was running Indiana in a VM. I tried > the > usual suspects (dig showed pkg.opensolaris.org resolving ok, ping > worked) and couldn't find anything wrong with my setup; I eliminated > pkg > itself as a suspect, because 'wget http://pkg.opensolaris.org/' failed > with a similar (but not identical) message. However, before I could > dig > any deeper, everything (wget and pkg) just started working, without me > having changed anything. It's still working as of right now. > Gayatri, > have you tried recently? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
