On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:53:24AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Had this problem for 3.8->3.9; and now again, 3.9->4.0: > pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends > fails with various responses; but it always refers to the number of threads > that it starts, like > > Error from ftp://openbsd.ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/: > 530 Sorry, your system may not connect more than 3 times. > ftp: Login failed. > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection. > > 421 There are too many connections from your internet address. > ftp: Can't connect or login to host `mirror.switch.ch' > Temporary error, sleeping 10 seconds > > There are not that many connections from here; probably only one machine. > > I have restarted, just issuing that command, on a single box, no changes. It > is 100% reproducable here, for any mirror, as well as the master site. > > Uwe
Any proxy anywhere ? pkg_add is not aggressive, but it relies on being able to abort connections after transferring the beginning of a package. We fixed a bug in ftp_proxy sometimes ago which did result on former connections not getting dropped properly.
