From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 13:09:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA25986 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:09:51 -0700 Received: from westhill.cdrom.com (westhill.cdrom.com [192.216.223.57]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA25980 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:09:47 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by westhill.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA08528 ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:07:00 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: westhill.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Eric L. Hernes" cc: Charles Browning , adrian@virginia.edu, FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Questions about ftp install In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 1995 09:13:58 CDT." Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 13:06:59 -0700 Message-ID: <8526.802642019@westhill.cdrom.com> From: Gary Palmer Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message , "Eric L . Hernes" writes: >On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Charles Browning wrote: >I have had a similar problem. the solution was to go to ttyv3 (alt f4) >and add the default route manually. for some reason this wasn't getting >done by ppp. I used something like: ># route add default >then the nameserver/ftp stuff worked, well the nslookup stuff did. This has been cured - we were being stupid with the ppp auto-generated configuration file :-( >Last night I got as far as `logging into ftp.freebsd.org' and >`cd to /pub/FreeBSD/.../' then it failed. >the debugging log looked like the program was looking for >some ``dist'' file or directory which wasn't there. HUH? I'll try to reproduce this, but this should not be a failure mode - it should see the dists dir isn't there and remember that for future reference, not fall flat on its face. :-( Gary