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Article #9629Re: FTP problem on 3/60's
From: David L. Markowitz
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 09:38
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 09:38
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felix!arcturus!dav@hplabs.hp.com (David L. Markowitz) (me) wrote: > I have an unusual problem on a small, isolated Sun network. ... > ... The symptom is that when FTP'ing FROM any 3/60 TO anywhere (including > itself), FTP is unable to bind any sockets. It fails with a "Can't assign > requested address" error. FTP thus cannot do an "ls", "send" or "get", or > any other operation requiring data transfer. "cd" succeeds. Many people wrote to remind me to have a full copy of /etc/hosts on these machines while booting them. In particular, each machine's own hostname must be listed (or rc.boot must use the internet address instead of a symbolic name). This did indeed solve the problem! Thanks to those who wrote (you know who you are). David L. Markowitz Rockwell International ...!sun!sunkist!arcturus!dav dav@arcturus.UUCP The above opinions are merely that, and only mine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: felix!arcturus!dav@hplabs.hp.com (David L. Markowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: FTP problem on 3/60's Message-ID: <2918@arcturus.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 88 09:38:06 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 2 Dec 88 23:34:49 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 52, message 4 of 14