% ping -c4 [url]http://www.google.com[/url]
% ping 8.8.8.8
iamlinux said:Yes.
Can I ping sites by name ?
Help me.
Please note that precompiled third-party packages are not available for 9.1-RELEASE at the time of release. See the Availability section below for further details.
# setenv PACKAGESITE [url=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/]ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/[/url]
paulfrottawa said:I checked those links on post #9 and there empty.
I understand that the packages in STABLE are generally newer, not older. Perhaps I'm wrong. I was just following advice from several (seemingly knowledgeable) people here.I never tried using old pakages myself.