I had a similar problem, in my case it was a firewall issue. I'm not sure exactly what port does, but it appears to use FTP rather than HTTP downloads? And the browser will do HTTP downloads. FTP in passive mode will connect to some random port (it's like 1000-2000 or something) on the server, which means your firewall has to allow outgoing connections to any of those possible ports. The easiest thing is to allow outgoing connections to any port (which isn't that dangerous, but my normal firewall setup is very restrictive) do your port installs, then restore your normal firewall settings. Jeff --- Marcus Karlsson <karlsson@aletes.se> wrote:
Hi.
I'm trying to install tetex, but when ports try to fetch it the download is somehow interrupted and it tries the other download locations that also fails the same way. I can however download the file from within Safari or any other web browser from the same servers that ports tried. Can I let ports use the file I manually downloaded instead of trying to download it?
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