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From: barry@mind.UUCP (Barry Lustig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ftp - netin: network is unreachable
Message-ID: <875@mind.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 13:09:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: mind.875
Posted: Fri Jun 19 13:09:41 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jun-87 03:03:39 EDT
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Reply-To: barry@mind.UUCP (Barry Lustig)
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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Keywords: ftp, GNU, mit-prep
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In article <737@hao.UCAR.EDU> woods@hao.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
>
>  Me too. I have been able to FTP things successfully from other MIT sites,
>and other non-MIT sites. Either prep is hopelessly overloaded (a likely
>possibility) to the point where no one can really FTP anything from them,
>or there is a problem on the MIT local network. Try it at 3 o'clock in the
>morning and see what happens.
>

Greg,
	If I remember correctly UCAR is on the NSF net.  If so, the
reason that you don't have problems ftping to certain MIT sites is
because they are also on the NSF net.  The mit-ai machines don't seem
to throw packets at the MIT NSF gateway, even though they could.
This causes packets to take the long route to you.

Barry Lustig
Cognitive Science Lab, Princeton University
barry@mind.princeton.edu