how to allow for access to an outside server

[Donald Thaler]

I've been told by oracle in order to complete an upgrade for the oracle agent on my unix system i will have to allow for access to "https://ccr.oracle.com" so that it can make an outside connection. Is this simply adding an entry in my hosts file and don't i need the ip address ???

[Steven Schweda]

How to allow it generally depends on what's
stopping it now. (And perhaps on what "it"
is in "[...] so that it can make [...]".)

[Victor Pavon]

The internet address Oracle gave you cannot be resolved by a DNS server. You're installation will not be able to connect to the URL without a DNS A record present.

[Donald Thaler]

What is a DNS A record ?

If you haven't guessed yet unix isn't my first language, so be gentle :)

[Victor Pavon]

Never mind. the destination host is not answering back. Here is the DNS record for the address:
Trying DNS
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: bigip-ccr.oracle.com
Address: 141.146.8.206
Aliases: ccr.oracle.com

You may update your hosts file with:
141.146.8.206 ccr.oracle.com

[Donald Thaler]

Victor....thanks... why couldn't oracle have told me that 2 hours ago when i first encountered the problem ??

i wish i could have given you more that 10 pts..... next time :)