Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Emerge Net Connect Error

["Ryan Crisman" <nxarmada@gmail.com>]

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Okay i got it to work.  It turns out /etc/conf.d/net was not setup to see
the router.

I just looked it up on the Gentoo Linux Doc and routes_eth0 was not set up
so I added
routes_eth0="default gw 192.168.1.1"
to the end of the file, restarted eth0 and everything works now.

Thanks for the help.

On 1/12/07, Ryan Crisman <nxarmada@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I do a ping distfiles.gentoo.org
> ping: unknown host distfiles.gentoo.org
>
> Than i try and ping its ip and i get
> connect: network is unreachable
>
> Pinging www.Google.com:
> connect: network is unreachable
>
> contents of resolv.conf
> domain localdomain
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
>
> But as i said before I am able to browser the web in Firefox.
>
> On 1/12/07, PaulNM < gentoo@paulscrap.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ryan Crisman wrote:
> > > Everytime I attempt to install a new program using portage i get this
> > > error:
> > >
> > > Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... failed: Temporary failure in  name
> > > resolution.
> > >
> > > I do have internet access and I am writing this email from the same
> > > machine.  It doesn't matter what package or when i get this error all
> > the
> > > time.  Even on the other mirrors for the package.
> >
> > Well, for some reason dns lookup for those sites fail.  What happens
> > when you put distfiles.gentoo.org in a web browser?  You could also try
> > pinging the repositories first, and if they get though, try emerge
> > again.  If emerge still fails, I'd try adding them to the host file with
> > whatever ip you get from pinging as a workaround.
> >
> > PaulNM
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Ryan Crisman




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Ryan Crisman

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