Frustration

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-11-13 12:24, "Paul A. Sprague" <thespragues at mac.com> wrote:
> I've done a successful 4.9 standard install of FreeBSD aand it is
> performing as a file server for my mac. I've never been able to
> install xfree86 wich is no problem, but whenever I've tried to do
> installs of daapd and its dependencies, I've had a variety of
> failures, Recently i tried installing cvsup and now I'm getting the
> following.
>
> cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
> # make install clean
> >> cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in  /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> >> Attempting to fetch from  ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/snapshots/.
> fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/snapshots/cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz: Host not found
>
> I'm hoping this something real simple that I'm overlooking.

Your DNS setup seems broken -- ftp.freebsd.org resolves fine here:

gothmog:/home/giorgos$ host ftp.FreeBSD.org
ftp.FreeBSD.org has address 62.243.72.50
ftp.FreeBSD.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::e
gothmog:/home/giorgos$