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Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

Uwe Thiem

2008-03-27

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On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:55 +0200, Elyahou ITTAH wrote:
> > If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use
> >
> > torify
>
> Please try to avoid doing this with large packages. Tor is a
> distributed net built by volunteers. Flooding it with large
> downloads is neither nice nor fast.
>
> I'd say, try http.

Jeez. You didn't read the original posting, did you? It's FTP, period.

I still advise to set the proxy in /etc/wgetrc.

Uwe

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