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Date:      Thu, 08 Jun 1995 13:06:59 -0700
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com>
To:        "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
Cc:        Charles Browning <browning@Browning.csranet.com>, adrian@virginia.edu, FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Questions about ftp install 
Message-ID:  <8526.802642019@westhill.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 1995 09:13:58 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950608090951.4804D-100000@jake.lodgenet.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.950608090951.4804D-100000@jake.lodgenet.com>, "Eric L
. Hernes" writes:
>On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Charles Browning wrote:
>I have had a similar problem. the solution was to go to ttyv3 (alt f4)
>and add the default route manually. for some reason this wasn't getting
>done by ppp.  I used something like:

># route add default <ip addr of tun0>

>then the nameserver/ftp stuff worked, well the nslookup stuff did.

This has been cured - we were being stupid with the ppp auto-generated
configuration file :-(

>Last night I got as far as `logging into ftp.freebsd.org' and
>`cd to /pub/FreeBSD/.../' then it failed.

>the debugging log looked like the program was looking for 
>some ``dist'' file or directory which wasn't there.

HUH? I'll try to reproduce this, but this should not be a failure mode
- it should see the dists dir isn't there and remember that for future
reference, not fall flat on its face. :-(

Gary




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