I'm behind a firewall and emerge-webrsync doesn't work!

[griffenjam]

I'm trying to install behind a firewall that I can't change and am having a problem. emerge sync wont work so I'm trying emerge-webrsync and it just outputs "Fetching most recent snapshot" and that's it, it exits after about 5 seconds.

Also /usr/portage is empty.

I can ping servers and use links to connect to the web, what am i doing wrong"?

[saba]

I had this problem too. I had to do some snooping around before I realised it was wget that was failing.

Try doing something like `wget www.gentoo.org`. If it works, then it shouldn't have any problems grabbing the webrsync image, unless ibilio.org is blocked for you.

If it fails, however, then it'll pop up an error. For me, it was almost always mistyping my proxy address, or leaving off the port range.

Oh, remember to export your proxy variables too! This'll let your environment know of the proxy, which isn't loaded from /etc/make.conf until later.

[trossachs]

griffenjam, are you able to access an outside nameserver? If I was to list one for you to add to your /etc/resolv.conf, that way you could get out and emerge sync.

Or is your query sorted now?

[griffenjam]

I can access the internet fine. wget works, and I can view webpages in links.

I can ping servers by name and get a response.

emerge-webrsync doesn't give any errors, it only outputs "Fetching most recent snapshot" and then exits.

[Reducer2001]

Where do I input my proxy values so I don't have to type

[Beholders_Eye]