pkg_add: remote install (-r) broken

[Kris Kennaway]

Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> At some point after my original installation of v.7-BETA3 in late
> November and a subsquent upgrade to BETA4 with Colin Percival's
> freebsd-update, installing packages remotely with pkg_add on my system
> broke. For example:

> <<< 550 Cannot connect to 78.27.2.208:53572 - Unknown error: 0.

I guess that is your IP.  You have a firewall and are not using passive 
mode FTP?  It should be the default unless you edited your login.conf.

Kris