> I have noticed that when I open ftp sites with NetBSD's ftp command, I get
> an error message where it can't find route to a host IP address, and then
> connects. The IP address given in the initial error message is obviously a
> IPv6 address, or at least it appears to be. If this is indeed what's
> happening, can I stop this behavior?

specify the hostname as ftp4.netbsd.org and you'll get the ipv4 address.