Pkg_add yields No address record error

[ThomasG33K]

Hi guys,

I am new to freebsd. I read the manual really hard and I installed freebsd without much hassle.

Now I go to install packages. I do
pkg_add -r sudo
as root and I get this error:
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/sudo.tbz: No address record
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/sudo.tbz' by URL

Internet works. I did ping and all is well with the internet but when installing ports and packages I get this frustrating error.

Thanks for the help!

[Mel_Flynn]

Hmm, two weird things:

1) if PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT are both unset, the default is ftp.freebsd.org not freebsd.org.

2) No address record suggests failing DNS, so ping (by hostname) shouldn't work either.

Could you post output of:

echo $PACKAGESITE $PACKAGEROOT
cat /etc/resolv.conf
host ftp.freebsd.org

[ThomasG33K]

Sorry I just edited my error message for the typo. I didnt copy and paste. It is already pointed to ftp.freebsd.org.

Here is the output:
PACKAGESITE: Undefined variable.
cat /etc/resolv.conf
search localdomain
nameserver #My IP Address#
host ftp.freebsd.org
;; conection timed out; no servers could be reached

[brd@]

Fix the /etc/resolv.conf entry to point to a working nameserver, such as one provided by your ISP.

[ThomasG33K]

I am having trouble figuring out how to get the nameserver to work. I type in the nameserver I have on one computer I have in my house but it does not work.

[anomie]

# echo '208.67.222.222' > /etc/resolv.conf

... and try it again. That's an opendns.org (http://www.opendns.com/) nameserver, BTW.