ftp -q 60 not working (well)

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi!

There is a weekly script on ftp.NetBSD.org that downloads mirrors all
distfiles currently used by pkgsrc.

In the past few weeks I've seen regular hangs, always when fetching
ruby gems.

The hangs from the last two weeks look like this (in ps):

pkgmastr  18764  0.0  0.0  33012   4748 ?       I    15Nov20    0:00.02 /usr/bin/ftp -q 60 -o tzinfo-2.0.3.gem https://rubygems.org/gems/tzinfo-2.0.3.gem                                                                                                                                                       pkgmastr  26119  0.0  0.0  30460   4752 ?       I     9Nov20    0:00.01 /usr/bin/ftp -q 60 -o rack-cache-1.12.1.gem https://rubygems.org/gems/rack-cache-1.12.1.gem

I.e. there is a time limit of 60s but the job runs for two or three
weeks without apparent progress. This looks like a bug in ftp(1), or?

 Thomas