I tried a octopus head installation.
It breaks at start because
netcat ftp.drupal.org 80
ftp.osuosl.org [140.211.166.134] 80 (www) : Connection timed out

Looks like an DNS problem with drupal org. think the IP of FTP servers are the same over years now.
As an alternative the access via IP can be done. This would not break the octopus installation.

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omega8cc CreditAttribution: omega8cc commented
Component: Code » Miscellaneous
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

We can't use IP, because it will not work, and it is beyond our control. Drupal ftp must be up (via name) when boa/barracuda/octopus is to be used.

$ curl -I http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/boost-7.x-1.0-beta2.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:22:28 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:01:44 GMT
ETag: "fcb39-6fc0-4c76e37d6da00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 28608
Content-Type: application/x-gzip
$ host ftp.drupal.org
ftp.drupal.org is an alias for ftp.osuosl.org.
ftp.osuosl.org has address 140.211.166.134
$ curl -I http://140.211.166.134/files/projects/boost-7.x-1.0-beta2.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:22:35 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1