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From: felix!arcturus!dav@hplabs.hp.com (David L. Markowitz)
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Subject: Re: FTP problem on 3/60's
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Date: 14 Dec 88 09:38:06 GMT
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felix!arcturus!dav@hplabs.hp.com (David L. Markowitz) (me) wrote:
> I have an unusual problem on a small, isolated Sun network.  ...
> ... The symptom is that when FTP'ing FROM any 3/60 TO anywhere (including
> itself), FTP is unable to bind any sockets.  It fails with a "Can't assign
> requested address" error.  FTP thus cannot do an "ls", "send" or "get", or
> any other operation requiring data transfer.  "cd" succeeds.

Many people wrote to remind me to have a full copy of /etc/hosts on these
machines while booting them.  In particular, each machine's own hostname
must be listed (or rc.boot must use the internet address instead of a
symbolic name).  This did indeed solve the problem!  Thanks to those who
wrote (you know who you are).

	David L. Markowitz		Rockwell International
	...!sun!sunkist!arcturus!dav	dav@arcturus.UUCP
	The above opinions are merely that, and only mine.