Some people are reposrting that ftp does not work on their network, probably due to proxies, while http does work.
Some (most) of the sites we use toretrieve tarballs have http equivallent for the ftp service. Use http as a failover.
There's no solution for those sites that do not have such an http equivalent.

/trunk/scripts/build/binutils.sh | 5 2 3 0 ++---
/trunk/scripts/build/libc_glibc.sh | 4 2 2 0 ++--
/trunk/scripts/build/libc_uClibc.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/400-ltrace.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh | 8 3 5 0 +++-----
/trunk/scripts/build/kernel_linux.sh | 7 2 5 0 ++-----
/trunk/scripts/build/cc_gcc.sh | 6 2 4 0 ++----
/trunk/scripts/build/gmp.sh | 4 1 3 0 +---
8 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

 # Kernel options

 menu "Kernel"

 choice

     bool

     prompt "Target OS"

     default KERNEL_LINUX

 config KERNEL_LINUX

     bool

     prompt "linux"

     help

       Build a toolchain targeting systems running Linux as a kernel.

 endchoice

 config KERNEL_VERSION

     string

 if KERNEL_LINUX

 source config/kernel/linux.in

 endif

 endmenu