From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 6: 6:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DFA151EC for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 06:05:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10968; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:05:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10839; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:04:32 +0100 Message-ID: <36EE657A.77CDC1A0@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:06:50 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phil Cc: cjclark@home.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.mydomain.com/filelist.html ??? References: <199903152116.QAA01260@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <36ED8EC9.D2712433@Syne-Post.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Phil wrote: > > Ok, I have seen it suggested a few times that people say its a DNS problem. > This latest message suggests I need a machine name of 'ftp' so that > ftp.mydomain.com will come up. Well, I only have one box. It's name is > 'mnemo'. > Does this imply that I can't run an ftp server for my site????? > I don't think that's what was intended. > > Let's try from another angle. > > As a newbie what do I have to do to set-up an FTP mirror of a site in .uk?? > I already have permission to do so from the content owner. > Also he said there is a way to automatically update the mirror site, say twice > a month, how can I accomplish this aswell??? Could it be that 'mnemo' is a local, unofficial, name? How do you connect to the Net? Also, when installing FreeBSD you gave your box an IP address. If you have a LAN can you access your box? I.e. 'ping ', can you telnet it? And finally, can you ftp it . If you don't have a LAN go on-line. Ask someone or go to a CyberCafe or something to access your machine. Try to access your box using the Internet IP address, of course. Chances are you already got a working FTP site. At least, if you told it to install it during setup (/stand/sysinstall). Roelof PS the names are mere syntactic sugar and have nothing to do with the running of a FTP site. Well, not much anyway -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message