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From: david@dbk.uucp (David Kozinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: BITFTP
Keywords: bitftp ftp 3b1
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.012845.17542@dbk.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 91 01:28:45 GMT
References: <91@morwyn.UUCP>
Organization: Custom Solutions, Emerson, NJ
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In article <91@morwyn.UUCP> forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
>For those of you who use BITFTP to get your files to the 3b1:  I'm curious
>about something.  I never really had a problem using BITFTP when I was 
>getting mail sent to a machine that was directly connected to UUNET... but
>it seems that when I involve another path with 2 more machines, BITFTP won't
>send the files to me... 

I believe that the bitftp requires a fully-qualified domain address. Ok,
you say, but morwyn.uucp looks like one to me, what's the problem? The
problem is that there is no "official" top-level domain called .uucp, so
any request with a reply address that points to .uucp usually can't get
through. I had this same problem which went away as soon as I started using
the FQDN from one of the machines at work. After that, all has worked quite
well.
-- 
David Kozinn                     
UUCP:   {uunet,mips}!sonyusa!sonyd1!dbk!david
Domain: david%dbk@Broadcast.Sony.COM or david@dbk.mony.com
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