The following reply was made to PR bin/29017; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/29017: pkg_add generates broken nlist commands to ftp server
 (2.0)
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:45:10 +0100

 Further tests I have conducted have produced the following:
 
 pkg_add works with two other servers I've tried, ftp.netbsd.org and
 ftp.fr.netbsd.org.  I don't know what kind of ftp server is running on
 ftp3.de.netbsd.org, it won't tell.  The difference appears in the following:
 
 On "nlist nonexistent", ftp.netbsd.org and ftp.fr.netbsd.org return:
 
 550 nonexistent: No such file or directory.
 
 whereas ftp3.de.netbsd.org returns:
 
 450 nonexistent: Not a regular file
 
 Apparently, pkg_add expects the first if the file doesn't exist, and is
 confused by the latter response.