From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 17:50:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C76D16A482 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:50:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D51F43D49 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:50:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496C15E61; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:50:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33760-04; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:50:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from [199.103.21.238] (pan.codefab.com [199.103.21.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029095DB9; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:50:07 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <43DFA091.8030105@calarts.edu> References: <43DFA091.8030105@calarts.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:50:07 -0500 To: Sean Murphy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add down! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:50:10 -0000 On Jan 31, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: > if I go to the ftp site with my browser it seems to work fine. > > What should I do as the package never seems to download. is there > a queue on the ftp servers? No queue. Presumably you have a local network problem involving active versus passive FTP or perhaps a Path MTU discovery issue, although you might simply have PACKAGESITE set wrong, too. :-) Does "ifconfig _en0_ mtu 1400" fix it, where you replace _en0_ with the NIC you have...? -- -Chuck