Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

[Uwe Thiem]

On Thursday 27 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Hello,
> I have inst. gtoo on a workstation at work.  But portage complains
> '-14:24:52--
> ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfile
>s/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2 =>
> `/usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2' Resolving
> cudlug.cudenver.edu... 132.194.22.137
> Connecting to cudlug.cudenver.edu|132.194.22.137|:21... failed:
> Network is unreachable.
>
>  >>> Downloading
>
> 'ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-p
>atches-1.4.tar.bz2' --14:24:52--
> ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-pa
>tches-1.4.tar.bz2 =>
> `/usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2' Resolving
> ftp.snt.utwente.nl... 130.89.175.1, 2001:610:1908:8000::175:1
> Connecting to ftp.snt.utwente.nl|130.89.175.1|:21... failed:
> Network is unreachable.
> Connecting to ftp.snt.utwente.nl|2001:610:1908:8000::175:1|:21...'
>
> This may be a 'medicine dept' firewall.
>
> I cannot ask Them to alter it.  Will someone help pls?
> Gavin.

Do you use a proxy for normal browsing? If so, you can set the proxy 
in /etc/wgetrc.

Uwe

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