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From: cam@claircom.com (Cam Elliott)
Subject: Re: PPP is up!  But now I have a problem with ftp, talk, etc...
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Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 15:43:49 GMT
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In article <C6Ap35.46C@zap.uniforum.qc.ca>, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin) writes:
|> Greetings...
|> 
|> 	I have solved my PPP problems, and now my 386BSD machine will
|> talk correctly to my SCO gateway to the Internet (using vjmode old).
|> 
|> 	But now I have another problem, which I feel must be a simple
|> question of TCP/IP configuration files.
|> 
|> 	If I ftp to my neighbour (ftp rcogate), a connection gets
|> established, I can log on, and I can do "cd pub"...  But whenever
|> I try to do "ls" or "get file", all I get is:
|> 
|> 	ftp: bind: Can't assign requested address
|> 
|> I'm a bit confused by this error!?!
|> 
|> 	I also get a similar error if I try to "talk clip@rcogate".
|> 
|> 	On the other hand, if I "ftp localhost", everything works fine.
|> 
|> 	Is this a nameserver issue?  (I don't have a named running, but
|> my /etc/hosts file is set-up properly)
|> 
|> 	Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
|> 
|> 	Denis, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca

I had the exact same problem, and I believe the way I fixed this 
was to 'ifconfig lo0 myipaddress'

or some such,
any BSD IP experts care to comment?