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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!cat-ufg.de!wis From: wis@olly.cat-ufg.de (Bernd Wiserner) Subject: Re: PPP is up! But now I have a problem with ftp, talk, etc... Message-ID: <C6MDCs.1Du@cat-ufg.de> Sender: wis@olly (Bernd Wiserner) Nntp-Posting-Host: olly Organization: CAT Computer Anwendungs-Technologie GmbH References: <C6Ap35.46C@zap.uniforum.qc.ca> <C6K912.MHJ@claircom.com> Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 19:12:27 GMT Lines: 32 In article <C6K912.MHJ@claircom.com>, cam@claircom.com (Cam Elliott) writes:|> |> 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 by the way which version of ppp did you use ? and where can it be found ? mfg B.Wiserner