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[Brian Buckley]

> 
> Hi
> On Fri, 9 Sep 1994 aprc at mail.nerc-bas.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> >  I have found it impossible to ftp from moon.cecer.army.mil from PCs, although 
> > there is no problem from Workstations. My local support people conjecture that 
> > this is because our PCs are not DNS registered, while the workstations are. This 
> > means that if moon.cecer.army.mil attempts to check on the existence of the PC 
> > systems, it can't find them in the DNS system, and refuses to connect to them, 
> > for security reasons.
> > 
> > Can someone confirm or deny this hypothesis?
> 
> Well it depends what the real problem is. You don' get connected or is he 
> denying your access eventhough the port is opened. I he refuses indeed to 
> open the port that is indeed the reason. Can you make with your pc a 
> telnet session on an external workstation outside your local network
> ?
> If not I confirm your problem and than you have to ftp over 
> the workstations if they are connected with the pc. Inform me about it, 
> maybe you can save by this needless searching!
> 
> 				Bart
> 
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Hello,

I can ftp to moon.cecer.army.mil from my pc.  It is a gateway 2000 486.
I'm at Michigan State University, I'm on ethernet and I'm running PCTCP
by FTP Inc.

Hope this info helps you locate your problem.

:-) Brian Buckley
buckley at ig0.rs.msu.edu

P.S. I don't believe that the dns on campus has this pc listed on it.