Bug#26188: apt: Cannot install from ftp [server is proftpd].

[Bill Bumgarner <bbum@codefab.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.1.5

orb: /Net/pathos/Exports/misc/usr1/bbum# apt-get install ssh
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ssh 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 427k of archives. After unpacking 741k will be used.
Get ftp://dorkus.codefab.com slink/binary-i386/ ssh [427k]
100% Err:ssh 0/427k 0%]                                                                        69.6k/s 0s
orb:/Net/pathos/Exports/misc/usr1/bbum# 
orb:/Net/pathos/Exports/misc/usr1/bbum# suspend

Some more details:

updating works fine.... just can't install.  It appears to receive the first block of ftp stuff, but nothing else.  Eventually, it doesn't seem to time out... 

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux orb 2.0.35 #2 Sun Jul 19 10:39:26 EST 1998 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:

--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://dorkus.codefab.com/mirror/debian/non-us slink/binary-$(ARCH)/

--- End /etc/apt/sources.list