What is your hostname? I can manually add it to the /etc/hosts file to retreive the correct information.
Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > The problem is not the server being up or down. When it is up, I am not > able to connect because the server cannot reverse-resolve my hostname. > > Connected to ike.egr.msu.edu. > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection > ftp> > > Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection > ftp> > > These servers both cannot resolve my hostname. I am not alone with this > problem, there are many people that use dial-up connections experiencing > the same thing. > > -Matt > > > > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > > > > > I am still not able to log into the debian ftp server, seems it cannot > > > resolve my hostname. My machine has two dns entries, could that be a > > > problem? > > > > I think the Debian ftp server (ftp.debian.org) is down since I was able to > > connect to it a few days ago. Have you tried a mirror like: > > > > ftp.us.debian.org > > > > -Ossama > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
