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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finger
Message-ID: <1991May10.045529.28748@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 04:55:29 GMT
References: <225@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
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Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <225@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> thg@kama.ESD.3Com.COM (Thomas Guenther) writes:
>Any ideas on why, when I use 'finger' on anyone in my own company,
>it works fine, but when I try to 'finger' anyone outside the company
>it won't do it?  The message I get is something like the following.
>If I were to finger joeuser@companyb.com I would immediately get the response:
>
>[companyb.com] connect:  Network is unreachable.

 This is because you are not really on Internet.  You are on a private
network.  Some of the hosts on that network are also on Internet, and your
email system is configured to relay your messages to a host which is on
Internet, so can deliver the mail.  But to use services such as 'finger',
'telnet' or 'ftp' you must either be on Internet, or you must limit your
use of these services to hosts within your private network.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940