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From: wis@olly.cat-ufg.de (Bernd Wiserner)
Subject: Re: PPP is up!  But now I have a problem with ftp, talk, etc...
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References:  <C6Ap35.46C@zap.uniforum.qc.ca> <C6K912.MHJ@claircom.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 19:12:27 GMT
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In article <C6K912.MHJ@claircom.com>, cam@claircom.com (Cam Elliott) writes:|> |> 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

by the way which version of ppp did you use ? 
and where can it be found ?

mfg B.Wiserner