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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:40:44 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.5 behind windows firewall. Unable to ftp.
Message-ID:  <20020220164044.GB3600@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020220075123.GB578@sysadm.stc>
References:  <OE17TlKn4ZHkRQq5xVz0001ab44@hotmail.com> <20020220075123.GB578@sysadm.stc>

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:51:23AM +0300, Igor Roboul wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:41:52PM -0800, Nathan Arun wrote:
> > What I'm not able to do is the seemingly simple thing. "ftp ftp.freebsd.org". This gives me an error message "no address associated with the hostname". "ftp -p ftp.freebsd.org" gives the same error message. "nslookup ftp.freebsd.org" also gives out similar message. I did "setenv FTP_PROXY OurProxy" and then tried ftp. Same error message.
> This usually means that your /etc/resolv.conf does not contain IP of
> your DNS server. DNS server is not same as WindowsNT Domain
> controller. Maybe your system administrator had not setup DNS server
> for your local network (because it is not very needed for
> Windows-only networks)
> 
> But I may be wrong
> 
try:

ftp 62.243.72.50

Just to check this out (this is the current ip address of
ftp.freebsd.org).

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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