Looks like your proxy configuration is wrong. Git has its own proxy settings in .gitconfig. Look at the http_proxy environment variable.
If you're not actually behind a proxy the problem could be the existence of http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY. ----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----- Från: "Simon Peyton Jones" <simo...@microsoft.com> Skickat: 2014-05-08 14:04 Till: "ghc-devs@haskell.org" <ghc-devs@haskell.org> Kopia: "Simon Marlow" <marlo...@gmail.com> Ämne: Cabal can't open a TCP connection Dear ghc-devs Cabal can’t open a TCP connection from my Linux box. It used to work fine. Here’s what it says: cabal -v3 update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org Sending: GET http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: cabal-install/1.16.0.2 Host: hackage.haskell.org proxy uri host: , port: Creating new connection to cabal: openTCPConnection: host lookup failure for "" simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD$ cabal --version cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 using version 1.16.0.3 of the Cabal library simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD$ Can anyone help me work out what to do? git works just fine, so the internet is connected all right. Thanks Simon
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