Hello Steve, hello Ted, hallo Matthew hello Bill and hello Dave!
thanks a lot for your advices. You were right. In the far machine I didn't
have the client ftp pc in /etc/hosts and I thought I didn't need it
because the target pc is also the name server. However I had not
made possible for the
I assume you are using the ftp client that comes with FreeBSD. Before
opening the connection try taking the client out of "passive" mode.
Ex.
ftp
ftp> passive
Passive mode off.
ftp>
I have noticed that some ftp servers do not react well to passive mode.
Ted
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but I give directly the address
ftp 3ffe:
so that no DNS must be started for the connection. The SuSE "box" really uses
dns before files, but if it gets the appeal from a certain address
must the dns first be started? Do I fail some important information
at the point?
thanks:Anastasia
T
Sounds as though the host (SuSE) is probably waiting for a DNS lookup to timeout.
Try putting an entry into /etc/hosts for your freeBSD box, and making sure that
the SuSE box uses files before DNS for resolving - might be a nsswitch.conf,
or 'search files,dns' entry in /etc/resolv.conf. Each Linu
