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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re^2: Where is comp.sources.x archived for FTP (except uunet.uu.net)
Message-ID: <1060@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 89 12:21:46 GMT
References: <8907061427.AA19048@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> <TADGUY.89Jul7230119@hathor.cs.odu.edu>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes:

>[ Yeah, ok, so this isn't really comp.windows.x material.  It still
>  might be useful for some people who also get this message from UUNET...]

>The message is pretty clearly saying that the problem is with your
>domain servers.  

>What's happening here is that UUNET is trying to discover the name of
>the machine you are ftp'ing from by doing a PTR query on your IP
>address.  If your domain servers are incorrect, it won't be able to do
>this (and thus returns the 421 message above).  Your administrator
>needs to fix this.

That would be fine if I thought it were true, but it isn't.  I regularly
send mail to myself to zeus.unl.edu from Carnegie-Mellon's machines with
no problem, yet, wonder of wonders, uunet doesn't know about me.

    Personally, I think if uunet is going to allow anonymous FTP, they
should allow just that, and dispense with this crap about only allowing
anonymous FTP from recognized sites.   Or, if they just /have/ to have it,
at least make it work!  Why they need to know my hostname when every other
site on the net couldn't care less if beyond me.

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