Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:20:08 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> To: mak@koerber.llan.ll.mit.edu (Michael A. Koerber) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetch, pkg_fetch, wget from behind firewall Message-ID: <443bfbs73b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <537j4rnym9.fsf@koerber.llan.ll.mit.edu> (Michael A. Koerber's message of "12 May 2006 09:47:42 -0400") References: <537j4rnym9.fsf@koerber.llan.ll.mit.edu>
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mak@koerber.llan.ll.mit.edu (Michael A. Koerber) writes: > For FreeBSD 5.x through 6.1 (the limit of my experiance w/ FreeBSD) > FETCH'ing from behind our fire wall only works most of the time. > > The problem, when it occurs, is at the end of the file transfer when > fetch hangs forever (i.e., 30 minutes to 24+hours when I finally kill > the process). The site for which this always happens is > ftp.belnet.be. > > I have tried > setting FTP_PASSAVE=YES > setting FTP_TIMEOUT=5 > setting HTTP_TIMEOUT=5 > > and none have worked...any ideas Well, the first of those has two different spelling errors, but I'll just assume you didn't cut-and-paste it. If that one host is the only one that has problems, then don't use it; I'm pretty sure everything that's there is available elsewhere too...
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