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From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Need help with ppp configuration on FreeBSD
Date: 2 Sep 1994 13:07:53 GMT
Organization: North Shore Access, a service of Eco Software, Inc.
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <347839$2i8@shore.shore.net>
References: <ALEX.94Sep1080517@alex.earthlink.net>
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In article <ALEX.94Sep1080517@alex.earthlink.net>, alex@alex.earthlink.net (Alexander Burchell) writes:
|> ftp> open ftp.uu.net
|> Connected to ftp.uu.net.
|> 220 ftp.UU.NET FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Thu Apr 14 15:45:10 EDT 1994) ready.
|> Name (ftp.uu.net:alex): anonymous
|> 530- Sorry, we're unable to map your IP address 198.68.161.123 to a hostname

This is ususally because uunet is a generally overloaded (and IMHO worthless)
system.  If you try again a little later (say a few minutes) your PTR
will be in uunet's cache and it should work.  Assuming your zone authority
has things set up right.

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