Hello Holger:
Your information seems very helpful: I am
not yet sure what to do with it though:
Here is my program output: (machine name is "bart")
read dns://
== "bart"
read dns://www.bart.com
== 194.158.170.46
read dns://194.158.170.46
== "www.bart.nl"
The last output doesn't appear right, but what should
I be doing?
I have Windows NT on this machine, the configuration allows
ws_ftp, command-line ftp and many desktop applications that
I have written using Borland/Fastnet work with ftp without
any problems.
What configuration changes should I make on
my machines?
Where is rebol's documentation on these matters?
Thank you very much ...
:>) Tim
At 03:00 PM 1/31/00 -0800, you wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>> The following code;
>> read ftp://jazz.trumpet.com.au/
>> result in the following error message from rebol:
>> connecting to: jazz.trumpet.com.au
>> ** User Error: Server error: tcp 500 Illegal PORT Command.
>> ** Where: read ftp://jazz.trumpet.com.au/
>> ;;NOTE: This site has anonymous ftp access.
>> What am I doing wrong here?
>
>The error message means that the ftp server is rejecting the
>PORT command from REBOL. The typical reason for this is
>that REBOL is sending the wrong IP address for the ftp data
>connection, and that is usually caused by an incorrect system
>configuration of your machine (at the operating system level,
>not in REBOL), most likely a bad DNS setup.
>
>"read dns://" should return the correct fully qualified hostname
>(i.e. including domain) of your machine, and
>"read dns://host.name.com" (with your hostname) should return
>the IP address. "read dns://1.2.3.4" (with your IP address) should
>return the hostname again (but that last part is not critical for FTP).
>
>--
>Holger Kruse
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
