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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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