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From: malloy@crash.CTS.COM (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to simtel20.arpa?
Message-ID: <1956@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 20:46:19 EST
Article-I.D.: crash.1956
Posted: Wed Nov  4 20:46:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 19:01:56 EST
Expires: Wed, 11-Nov-87 03:00:00 EST
References: <528@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: malloy@crash.CTS.COM (Sean Malloy)
Distribution: na
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 28
Keywords: simtel20, ftp
Summary: Still there

In article <528@leah.Albany.Edu> jem97@leah.albany.edu.UUCP ( Jim Mower) writes:
>Last Sunday I successfully downloaded Micro Emacs from simtel20.arpa.  
>When I went to ftp the documentation, the network became unreachable.
>It has been that way from Albany since.  Has anyone been able to connect
>to them since the weekend?
>
>Micro Emacs looks like a nice package.
I finished an FTP download from SIMTEL20 at about 1735 on 11/4/87, and
it seemed to be working fine. 

One of the things that I have noticed is that there are a limited
number of ports into SIMTEL20; if they are all busy, you'll get a
'connection refused' message from FTP.

If the problem seems to be with the network translation of the
hostname to addresses, try using SIMTEL20's node number:

	ftp 26.0.0.74

instead of 'simtel20.arpa'.

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