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From: abc@BRL.MIL (Brinton Cooper)
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Subject: [Andy McFadden: Re: Pro-Beagle FTP?]
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Date: 30 Nov 89 20:19:27 GMT
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Andy McFadden and Scott Alfter write:

>In article <113300190@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
writes: 
>> 
>>Anyone know how to FTP to Pro-Beagle?  I know their address is
>>pro-beagle.cts.com, but when I try to FTP to that address, the mainframe tells
>>me, "Unknown host."  What gives?
> >FTP is not magic. Both the sender and receiver need to have FTP running,
>and I don't think proline software supports it (nor rlogin, or finger, or
>talk, or ...) 
> >-- >fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
>...!ucbvax!cory!fadden 
>

It's more than that.  All that is implied by the address
pro-beagle.cts.com is that they can receive e-mail, that is, that
there's an "MX record" for that host.  It does not imply that they
are connected to the Internet, and, in fact, this host is not.  There is
no numerical Internet address (of the form n1.n2.n3.n4) that I can
find.  So they probably support none of the utilities so common in the
TCP/IP world; or, if they do, they're not connected to the Internet
world.

_Brint