On Sunday 09 April 2006 19:59, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > New to FreeBSD not new to *nix. Have the docs/handbook/faq, etc. Using > freebsd 6.0 RELEASE on Compaq Proliant 2500R. > Why when trying to install various apps from ports do the ftp sessions > frequently timeout? If I manually fetch packages from > sites the download goes ok, but this means I have to copy files to > /usr/ports/distfiles manually. did 'man fetch' but still no clue > as to why this happens.
Try adding MASTER_SORT_REGEX?= ^file: ^https?: to make.conf. This tells the ports system to prefer http where availible. If things don't improve then you have ruled-out its being ftp specific. I've never made any specific firewall provision for ftp, and fetch claims to default to active mode. As it works for me I guess it must be honouring the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE="YES" that's in the default environment. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
