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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nwnexus!claircom.com!cam From: cam@claircom.com (Cam Elliott) Subject: Re: PPP is up! But now I have a problem with ftp, talk, etc... Organization: Claircom Communications, L.P. Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 15:43:49 GMT Message-ID: <C6K912.MHJ@claircom.com> Originator: cam@piranha.claircom.com References: <C6Ap35.46C@zap.uniforum.qc.ca> Sender: usenet@claircom.com (Poster Boy) Nntp-Posting-Host: piranha.claircom.com Lines: 35 In article <C6Ap35.46C@zap.uniforum.qc.ca>, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin) writes: |> Greetings... |> |> I have solved my PPP problems, and now my 386BSD machine will |> talk correctly to my SCO gateway to the Internet (using vjmode old). |> |> But now I have another problem, which I feel must be a simple |> question of TCP/IP configuration files. |> |> If I ftp to my neighbour (ftp rcogate), a connection gets |> established, I can log on, and I can do "cd pub"... But whenever |> I try to do "ls" or "get file", all I get is: |> |> ftp: bind: Can't assign requested address |> |> I'm a bit confused by this error!?! |> |> I also get a similar error if I try to "talk clip@rcogate". |> |> On the other hand, if I "ftp localhost", everything works fine. |> |> Is this a nameserver issue? (I don't have a named running, but |> my /etc/hosts file is set-up properly) |> |> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated! |> |> Denis, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca I had the exact same problem, and I believe the way I fixed this was to 'ifconfig lo0 myipaddress' or some such, any BSD IP experts care to comment?