Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!tadguy From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: BITFTP/abcfd20 woes Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 90 14:58:41 GMT References: <26d7b60b-2928comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.xei.com> <382@scubed.SCUBED.COM> Sender: news@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (USENET File Owner) Organization: NASA/Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: esalbert@scubed.com's message of 27 Aug 90 08:54:57 GMT In article <382@scubed.SCUBED.COM> esalbert@scubed.com (Eric Salberta) writes: > I also am having problems ftp'ing from the New Xanth -- namely, the host > table here never heard of "abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov". It's the '90's, dude: get a name server! -- There's no excuse to not have one. > I have noticed that messages referring to other sites include a "number > address" ... I have never seen such an address listed for the "new Xanth" abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov AN IN A 128.155.23.64 > If there is a general way for finding out the "number address" given the > "name address", I would very much like to know that as well. YES! Send ``help'' to ...tad