pdftex info

pdftex info

[David Arnold]

Hans,

Tried downloading pdftex win32 binaries from your site, only to be rewarded
with

FTP Error

Could not login to FTP server

 Hello 63.160.62.68,
 it seems you have some mis-configuration in your DNS. I was not
 able to obtain the domain name for your IP address (63.160.62.68).
 Please fix your DNS configuration (or ask your system administrator
 or Internet service provider to do it).

 Some FTP server may allows you to log in even without the correct
 reverse DNS mapping, but our policy is to deny such logins.
 Please fix your DNS and then come back again.

 Yours sincerely,
                         ftp-admin@informatics.muni.cz.

 Now I have to close your connection.

I've never seen such a thing before. 
-
David Arnold
College of the Redwoods
Mathematics Department
7351 Tompkins Hill Road
Eureka, CA 95501
(707) 476-4222

My Home Page
http://online.redwoods.cc.ca.us/instruct/darnold/index.htm

Ordinary Differential Equations Using Matlab
http://www.prenhall.com/books/esm_0130113816.html

Re: pdftex info

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:14 PM 5/29/2000 -0700, David Arnold wrote:

>Tried downloading pdftex win32 binaries from your site, only to be rewarded
>with
>
>FTP Error
>
>Could not login to FTP server

Hm. Looks like there is something wrong at thanh's end of the line. 

Hans

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Re: pdftex info

[Ed L Cashin]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 01:14 PM 5/29/2000 -0700, David Arnold wrote:
> 
> >Tried downloading pdftex win32 binaries from your site, only to be rewarded
> >with
> >
> >FTP Error
> >
> >Could not login to FTP server
> 
> Hm. Looks like there is something wrong at thanh's end of the line. 

I must have misunderstood the original posting, then.  It looked to me
like David Arnold ought to contact the Domain Name Liason responsible
for maintaining the reverse name lookup service for the IP from which
he is trying to do FTP.  The DNL can correct the situation: reverse
lookups are not working for "63.160.62.68".

My own test confirms that 63.160.62.68 has no name:

  kali:2:ecashin ecashin$ nslookup 63.160.62.68
  Server:  dns1.uga.edu
  Address:  128.192.1.9

  *** dns1.uga.edu can't find 63.160.62.68: Non-existent host/domain

... and many internet servers will deny service to the host at
63.160.62.68, since its DNS has not configured reverse lookup.

-- 
--Ed Cashin                     PGP public key:
  ecashin@coe.uga.edu           http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/

Re: pdftex info

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:17 AM 5/30/2000 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:

>... and many internet servers will deny service to the host at
>63.160.62.68, since its DNS has not configured reverse lookup.

So, if I got you right, the problem is at davids end of the line? 

Hans

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              Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
      tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl
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Re: pdftex info

[Ed L Cashin]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 10:17 AM 5/30/2000 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> 
> >... and many internet servers will deny service to the host at
> >63.160.62.68, since its DNS has not configured reverse lookup.
> 
> So, if I got you right, the problem is at davids end of the line? 

Yes.  Just from looking at the error message he got and the fact that
I can't look up a name for that IP.  It looks like if that IP had a
name associated with it, the ftp server would let him in.

Until his DNL (the internet service provider or his sysadmin will be
the DNL -- Domain Name Liason) gets it sorted out, an interim solution
would be to use a different machine that has a name.  Heck, I'll even
email it to him if he wants!  :)

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--Ed Cashin                     PGP public key:
  ecashin@coe.uga.edu           http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/