This question should be in a FAQ list, but for some reason I could not 
find it:

What is to be configured in order to have the NetBSD Packages Collection 
working when the NetBSD machine has internet access by means of a proxy 
server (or firewall)???

When I want to ftp ftp.netbsd.org I do:

ftp proxy
login:anonymous@ftp.netbsd.org
password:cterre@activ.es

'proxy' is the name defined in /etc/hosts for the computer running the 
proxy server (192.168.0.2 in my LAN). This gets me in business.

The problem is that I have looked into bsd.pkg.mk (the file that is 
included into Makefile when a package is to be installed) and saw there 
are some settings for passive use when a firewall is being used... but I 
have no clue where they are!!!

This should be documented since proxy servers are rather common...

Thanks for your help!


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