Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

[trondd]

On 2/17/15, Gene <gh5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:37 PM, trondd <tro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He's using http protocol.  Just because the hostname has ftp in it,
>> doesn't mean it's the ftp protocol.
>>
>
> It's not just the hostname I'm basing it off of, it's the error message:
>
> ~ $ sudo pkg_add -ui
> quirks-2.52 signed on 2015-02-14T12:43:06Z
> Error from
> http://ftp.hostserver.de/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/curl-7.40.0.tgz
> ftp: connect: No route to host
>
> It's using ftp. I'm not familiar with how package management works with
> OpenBSD, so I don't know if this is a weird quirk of the pkg_add command or
> if he's not setting his package source properly.
>
To clarify, pkg_add is using the ftp application to connect using the
http protocol.  He's specifying http://something and his output near
the beginning of the thread shows his connections to port 80.