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I have a clean install of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. I want to install a simple DHCP server for a few windows computers. But, unfortunately, following don't work:

pkg_add -r isc-dhcp3-server

Error is: "Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/latest/isc-dhcp-server.tbz"

What i'm doing wrong? pkg_add -r nano works just fine :(. Is a DHCP server package has different name? Or it must be fetched from another place? Or in 7.2 isc-dhcp3 is not used and it's some other way to run a simple DHCP server?

I know that it's possible to build it from ports (theoretically), but i'm very interested in how to install it as a package from internet. Any hints?

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Way more programs you can find in FreeBSD's ports collection. First you need to checkout ports.

portsnap fetch extract

then ones a day/week/month you should run portsnap fetch update to update collection (not programs them selfs)

After ports are extracted you can find one you want and install it:

cd /usr/ports
make search name=isc-dhcp
cd /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp31-server
make install clean

PS. And it'll be good to read handbook first

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The original question specifically stated that they didn't want to use ports (and the binary packages are built from ports, anyway). – Stephen Veiss Aug 26 '09 at 22:27
Because for 7.2-release there is only isc-dhcp3-devel is accessible via packages that is in unstable branch at that time. And stable release 3.1.2p1_1 can only be accessible via ports. – SaveTheRbtz Aug 26 '09 at 23:51
So, basically, FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE is not so 'RELEASE' since it is missing required packages? – Eye of Hell Aug 27 '09 at 6:36
There is always something that you can't install from packages, so you need to use ports instead. – SaveTheRbtz Aug 27 '09 at 14:52
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Try pkg_add -r isc-dhcp31-server

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Same error - 'unable to fetch' :(. – Eye of Hell Aug 27 '09 at 8:36
as you can see here ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/… the only available is isc-dhcp30-devel.tbz – SaveTheRbtz Aug 27 '09 at 19:05
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Did you try to download this package: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/net/isc-dhcp31-server-3.1.2p1_2.tbz and install it:

# pkg_add -v isc-dhcp31-server-3.1.2p1_2.tbz

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