On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:30:14PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> There have been problems with some versions of Checkpoint firewalls and 
> our server, and in particular the multi-line response from the login 
> prompt.  But I don't think that that's the issue here.  My guess is the 
> local security policy -- it may not permit calls out to arbitrary ports.
> 
> Is there a web proxy inside?  If so, try setting environment variable
> ftp_proxy to point to it (for the command-line fetch; according to the 
> man page, you need to do 'set ftp_proxy' for interactive sessions).

This won't work for pkg_add though. Because of the way it use ftp,
it can't work with http proxies.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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