Re: What to do against "hanging" downloads?

["OBATA Akio" <obata%lins.jp@localhost>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:34:49 +0900, Gueven Bay 
<gueven.bay%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:

> I am building now the guide (/usr/pkgsrc/doc/guide) and in this
> process bash is built for which patches are downloaded. The system
> tries to download from ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de the bash32-01 to
> bash32-1x patches, but every time it is stuck at this step
>  229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||15323|)
> The system waits for two or three minutes then he downloads this
> little patch which takes some seconds.
>
> What can I do to avoid these "hanging" downloads, please?

Put following lines on ~/.netrc (need last blank line).
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machine ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de
macdef init
epsv4 off

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First "machine" line may replaced with "default".

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OBATA Akio / obata%lins.jp@localhost