Re: Cabal can't open a TCP connection

On 2014-05-08 at 14:03:22 +0200, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

Dear ghc-devs Cabal can't open a TCP connection from my Linux box. It used to work fine. Here's what it says:

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proxy uri host: , port: Creating new connection to cabal: openTCPConnection: host lookup failure for ""

my best guess: your proxy settings seem off