In need of desperate help!

Brandon · Guest

I'm new to gentoo. I'm trying to install from stage one, i got everything upto emerge rsync:
/etc/make.profile is not being found
rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage has a temporary failure in name resolution

could this be the result of my network card configuration?

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 3:12 am Post subject:

Your DNS is broken. Your network card may not be set up right (double-check the output of ifconfig), or /etc/resolv.conf might be wrong (check it too).

Brandon · Guest

Okay, so I am going to have to get the DNS servers of my ISP and add those in the resolv.conf? when i did an ifconfig -a it had the up and running the install documentation said it would need.
Thanks for the help

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 3:24 am Post subject:

See if you can get to the ouside world by pinging something by IP, say, "ping 209.98.98.98". (It's easy to remember and always online.)

If that works but "ping ra.visi.com" (the name of that computer; one of my ISP's nameservers) doesn't, fix your /etc/resolv.conf.

Brandon · Guest

Thank you! I found out that it was in my route configuration. Gateway shouldnt be 255.255.255.0. if only i would have followed gentoo.org's advice! Im so stupid, but thanks for the help man! I appreciate it.

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 3:35 am Post subject:

Brandon · Guest

Well, grr!
I can ping outside addresses, even rsync.gentoo.org, but i cant connect to rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage a friend said there was something messed up about port 873 on that site.