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From: Craig S. Cochran
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 12:47
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 12:47
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dang@shell.UUCP (Susan Dang) writes:
> I am recently experiencing the "ftp: bind: Can't assign requested address"
> error on some of my Sun3 and Sun4 diskless workstations.
Make sure that the local machine's internet address is correct in the
local /etc/hosts file, even (especially) if you are running YP.
Apparently the ftp daemon looks at the local /etc/hosts file to find out
its own internet address, EVEN IF YOU ARE RUNNING YP. This is the only
program I know of in SunOS that does this. Since this is done at boot
time, if you change the address in the local /etc/hosts file to match what
is being served via YP, you still need to reboot to make ftp work.
While there may be other causes of the phenomenon you are seeing, I found
that the local /etc/hosts file was very often the cause on the YP-running
network I managed (where the addresses changed almost weekly).
Good luck.
Craig S. Cochran {sun,decwrl}!valid!craig
Valid Logic Systems 408/432-9400 x-2261
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: valid!craig@calvin.arpa (Craig S. Cochran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: ftp problem Keywords: Networks Message-ID: <8904280154.AA01184@calvin.valid.uucp> Date: 11 May 89 12:47:06 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 18:54:14 PDT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 284, message 1 of 13