From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 8:41:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE9E37B41C for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dZnR-0001qO-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:40:45 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 301F813040 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:40:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 9C96E22590; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:40:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:40:44 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 behind windows firewall. Unable to ftp. Message-ID: <20020220164044.GB3600@raggedclown.net> References: <20020220075123.GB578@sysadm.stc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020220075123.GB578@sysadm.stc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message