Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:16:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: ReachMe@Syne-Post.com (Phil) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.mydomain.com/filelist.html ??? Message-ID: <199903152116.QAA01260@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <36ED4475.EC3E214@Syne-Post.com> from Phil at "Mar 15, 99 12:33:41 pm"
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Phil wrote, > Ok so I have read man inetd man ftpd and the FreeBSD Handbook and have > tried searches on the last 4 months of freebsd-questions. > From all this I have read a lot about what ftp can do and how to use > it once running but I haven't found anything specifically on setting it > up to be used. > > I did check inetd.conf and it is activated in that file (most likely by > default) > and inetd is running but when you type in ftp://ftp.mydomain.com I get > Netscape could not locate the server. > > where is the short manual for setting up ftp to work on my box?? I'm > running Frebsd2.2.7 stable. > > where od I go?? This sounds like an DNS problem, and has nothing to do with ftpd on your box. The machine name 'ftp.mydomain.com' is not valid. What does 'nslookup ftp.mydomain.com' return? What does Netscape do if you put in, 'ftp://localhost'? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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