Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

[Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>]

Same issue on Debian stable _mips_:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
...
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  liblwres60
Suggested packages:
  rblcheck krb5-doc libschroedinger-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libraw1394-dev
  libdc1394-22-dev cups-common krb5-user
Recommended packages:
  asterisk
The following packages will be upgraded:
  asterisk-config asterisk-sounds-main bind9-host dnsutils krb5-multidev
  libavcodec-dev libavcodec52 libavutil-dev libavutil49 libbind9-60 libcups2
  libdns69 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62
  libk5crypto3 libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 libkrb5-3
  libkrb5-dev libkrb5support0 liblwres60
25 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4096 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ squeeze/updates/main libkrb5-dev mipsel 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 [37.6 kB]
Err ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ squeeze/updates/main libkrb5-dev mipsel 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5
  Could not connect passive socket. [IP: 200.17.202.197 21]
Get:2 ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ squeeze/updates/main krb5-multidev mipsel 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 [104 kB]
Err ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ squeeze/updates/main krb5-multidev mipsel 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5
  Could not connect passive socket. [IP: 200.17.202.197 21]
...
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

ii  apt                               0.8.10.3+squeeze1            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-listbugs                      0.1.3                        tool which lists critical bugs before each apt installation
ii  apt-utils                         0.8.10.3+squeeze1            APT utility programs
ii  aptitude                          0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1           terminal-based package manager (terminal interface only)
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.24+b1                    Perl interface to libapt-pkg
...
ii  python-apt                        0.7.100.1+squeeze1           Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  python-apt-common                 0.7.100.1+squeeze1           Python interface to libapt-pkg (locales)

Thanks,

Andreas Mohr