Lee, I guess this is what they are saying they require, it was just a short note from them this afternoon explaining what they needed and they were going to check my IP (I had sent them a trace), and I bet you are right about it being other than FTP, but when they were working with me to see if I could get in they kept having me type ftp, then the rest of the address.
On May 4, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On May 4, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Profile wrote: > >> Seems that the firm will not allow an FTP entrance if the provider >> does not also provide the DNS with the request, and I guess >> Insight has removed that key component, so I have had to install >> DSL just to get the info. I need until they can get the problem >> corrected. I will be glad when they are through all this. > > I don't understand the problem. Are they requiring a reverse DNS > lookup to work? > > I am surprised any company allows ftp access to anything at all any > more. There are few protocols as insecure as ftp. I'd expect sftp, > https or scp instead because those are secure. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
