On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Dave Huang wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Ryan La Riviere wrote:
> >
> > nslookup shows the correct IP address.  When I use pkg_add, it looks
> > like the spawned ftp process is trying to use IPv6 addresses (hex
> > instead of decimal).
>
> ftp.netbsd.org has an IPv6 address (in addition to IPv4)... if you don't
> have IPv6 set up on your machine, it should fail quickly, then try the
> IPv4 address. And if you do have IPv6 set up, it should work fine with
> the IPv6 address :)

Could be a bug. A fellow reported the same thing on
comp.unix.bsd.netbd.misc, but he said he had installed 1.5. I don't
recall having any such problem with 1.5, but I think the AAAA (IPv6)
record appeared at about the same time as 1.5.2 was released.

> I guess you could replace "ftp.netbsd.org" with the IPv4 address
> (204.152.184.75) in the URL...

...or "ftp4.netbsd.org".

Frederick