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Florian Hengstberger wrote:
> fetch time out
> 
> It seemed to me that the mirror servers are not uptodate or that
> some filenames have changed in the meantime, because fetching data
> from ftp-servers worked a few times. 
> But in nearly all cases I had to copy the files manually in
> /usr/ports/distfiles as "make install" finally suggested.

I had similar problems and it took me a while to figure it out.  The 
FTPs that worked for me were the ones I manually started, not the ones 
done by the ports makefiles.  I'm accessing through a firewall and it 
seems that when ftp is used there it doesn't automagically try to use 
passive mode.  I needed to add FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES to my environment 
variables.  I don't remember exactly where it went though.

Joe.