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From: jxf@castor.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: IP Address of ftp.apple.com
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Date: 21 Nov 90 23:16:58 GMT
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emerson@hal.uvm.edu (Tree) writes:

>What is the IP address of ftp.apple.com?  When I ftp to what is
>"ftp.apple.com" I connect to bric-a-brac (?) which contains absolutely
>nothing, or at least nothing that I can see with "ls" or "dir".

Me too, the following is a transcript from my ftp session:

-% ftp ftp.apple.com
-Connected to bric-a-brac.apple.com.
-220 bric-a-brac.apple.com FTP server (IG Version 5.81 (from BU, from UUNET 5.51)
- Thu Sep 6 21:29:17 PDT 1990) ready.
-Name (ftp.apple.com:jxf): anonymous
-331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
-Password:
-230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
-ftp> dir
-200 PORT command successful.
-150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
-226 Transfer complete.
-ftp>

What the hey?

  --Jerry