Why axel failed to download files

[xiaonanln]

I am using axel to speed up file downloading when making ports. But axel failed to download most files just like bellow.

Initializing download: ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnome.org/sources/gnome-backgrounds/2.28/gnome-backgrounds-2.28.0.tar.bz2
Connection gone.

I am using a http proxy by setting environment variable and the proxy should work fine because wget always succeed.
Does it becaused that axel has some issue when downloading files from FTP sites?

 

[graudeejs]

I haven't had any issues with axel, ever

 

[sixtydoses]

I am using a http proxy by setting environment variable and the proxy should work fine because wget always succeed.
Does it becaused that axel has some issue when downloading files from FTP sites?

Try to set ftp_proxy in your environment.

setenv ftp_proxy http://ip:port

 

[xiaonanln]

ftp_proxy is already set and it didn't help.
BTW: "pkg_add -r" never worked for me.