This is a repost of an earlier cry for help, but embellished with more information. My machine has two partitions, one for Win95 and one for Debian 2.0. I use a modem and ppp for Internet access.
>From the debian side there are certain remote sites to which I cannot login, the connection gets closed by the remote host. An example ftp site is ftp.debian.org, but there are others. On the other hand, most of my remote connections work fine. However, from the Win95 partition, there is no connection problem with any sites. The ftp interaction goes like this to a failure site: Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection >From help already received, I am guessing that: It looks probable that my connection attempt is ultimately rejected because there is not a match between my forward address and reverse address resolution as perceived by the remote host. This is not inherently a problem in my ISP, since the same connection attempt succeeds from Win95 (same remote target address, same ISP). There may be something in my local setup that results in sending misinformation to the remote target. Whether, I'm on the right track or not, I am stalled for the moment. I would appreciate any insights. TIA, Richard
