🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, here's the problem:

Here I am in the UK, armed with an ethernet link to a Cisco router, a
kilostream link to UKC, internet access, nslookup, ping et al, and a
passion to talk via ftp to cica.cica.indiana.edu.

cica.cica.indiana.edu is internet address 129.79.20.22 right? so,

8% ftp
ftp> open 129.79.20.22
[long wait]
ftp: connect: Connection timed out

But I can do:

ftp> open uunet.uu.net
Connected to uunet.uu.net.
220 uunet FTP server (Version 5.100 Mon Feb 11 17:13:28 EST 1991) ready.
Name (uunet.uu.net:jonb): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> close

so, I try good old ping:

9% ping 129.79.20.22
PING 129.79.20.22: 56 data bytes

----129.79.20.22 PING Statistics----
23 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
10%
10% ping uunet.uu.net
PING uunet.uu.net: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.48.96.2: icmp_seq=0. time=464. ms
64 bytes from 192.48.96.2: icmp_seq=1. time=256. ms
64 bytes from 192.48.96.2: icmp_seq=2. time=704. ms

----uunet.uu.net PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 256/474/704

Why can't I access cica.cica.indiana.edu?
Suggestions? Comments? Explanations?

[This is mostly boring tripe, so email your answers. If I get a lot of `yeah,
I wan't to know about that' mail then I will sumarise].
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Dont believe a word of this.