problems with the moon

[Chris C Rewerts]

I was looking for something on the moon this week and 
got the same kind of error sporatically from the 'ls -ls' or 'dir'
command. However, when this occured, the 'ls' command would 
work. 

I ftp'ed from a SPARC-II.

>From lists-owner at max.cecer.army.mil Wed Sep 23 05:45:19 1992
>From: Martin Ameskamp <ma at informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
>
>Having used the 'moon' in the past without problems, I now have problems
>trying to get a directory listing:
>
>ftp> dir
>200 PORT command successful.
>425 Can't build data connection: Interrupted system service.
>
>I don't know enough about the innards of ftp servers and clients to be sure
>where the fault originates, but dir works fine with other servers.
>Downloading from the moon still works.
>
>My machine is a PC386 running SCO UNIX.
>

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