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From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: problems with abcfd20
Message-ID: <TADGUY.90Oct24204958@abi2.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: 25 Oct 90 00:49:58 GMT
References: <1990Oct24.015948.21202@cbnews.att.com>
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In-Reply-To: itch@cbnews.att.com's message of 24 Oct 90 01:59:48 GMT

[ The referred to article was had a distribution of na.  Ftp is not
  limited to North America, so I've removed that restriction. ]

In article <1990Oct24.015948.21202@cbnews.att.com> itch@cbnews.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
> are other people having problems FTPing to abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov?
> ... I get the "message of the day", then comes the coredump!

The ftp server on abcfd20 recognizes what host you're coming from and
issues a coredump signal to your machine if it doesn't like the way
you're dressed.  :-)

Actually, you're ftp client is broken.  Apparently some ftp clients do
not accept multiline responses (the message of the day, in your case)
when they don't expect them.  The message is legal according to the
FTP RFC, so your client is broken.

If you're on a UNIX machine that has sockets, get the freed version of
ftp from uunet.uu.net (/bsd-sources/src/ucb, I think).  I don't know
for certain if that one does not have this bug, but it's worth a try.
(If not, let me know.)  Regardless, your system administrator should
be made aware of this situation.

	...tad