Re: What to do against "hanging" downloads?

["Gueven Bay" <gueven.bay%googlemail.com@localhost>]

2007/10/31, 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).
> =============================================
> machine ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de
> macdef init
> epsv4 off
>
> =============================================
> First "machine" line may replaced with "default".

This is a good tip. I will try it. Thank you very much.