Subject: Re: Missing distfile for pkg_install?
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/21/2002 23:21:14
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 22:55, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> I didn't notice right away that ftp.netbsd.org was just dumping my connection.
> This seems to be an issue with my connection to ftp.netbsd.org.  It looks like
> our firewall might be choking on the ftpd output, since I can connect if I 
> put a '-' in front of the password.
> Everything is working ok after:
> 	setenv FTPANONPASS -gillham@vaultron.com

Do you happen to be behind a NAT box that does PPPoE (without MSS
clamping)? I've been seeing the same problem on my end (with the
described scenario), and Squid solved the problem nicely for me.

Regards,
Jared