Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:53:47 +0100 From: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> To: Phil <ReachMe@Syne-Post.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.mydomain.com/filelist.html ??? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990315185347.00bb94a0@relay.alice.it> In-Reply-To: <36ED4475.EC3E214@Syne-Post.com>
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At 12.33 15/03/99 -0500, you wrote: >Ok so I have read man inetd man ftpd and the FreeBSD Handbook and have >tried searches on the last 4 months of freebsd-questions. (...) >where is the short manual for setting up ftp to work on my box?? I'm >running Frebsd2.2.7 stable. When Netscape says "unable to locate host", there's a networking problem or a DNS problem. Are you sure that both aspects are OK? FTPD is enabled by default. You're right: it is launched by INETD. Could you ping the FreeBSD box? Could you access it via telnet? If YES/YES/YES: type "ftp localhost" on the FreeBSD box and see if FTPD answers a "local" call. --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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