In message <20050108213412.GA6168@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:30:14PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> There have been problems with some versions of Checkpoint firewalls and 
>> our server, and in particular the multi-line response from the login 
>> prompt.  But I don't think that that's the issue here.  My guess is the 
>> local security policy -- it may not permit calls out to arbitrary ports.
>> 
>> Is there a web proxy inside?  If so, try setting environment variable
>> ftp_proxy to point to it (for the command-line fetch; according to the 
>> man page, you need to do 'set ftp_proxy' for interactive sessions).
>
>This won't work for pkg_add though. Because of the way it use ftp,
>it can't work with http proxies.
>
Arguably, that's a bug in pkg_add.  It's still worth trying the ftp,
if only to figure out if that's where the problem is.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb