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For some unknown reason, I can't access
ftp://ftpput.sco.com :

PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=79.677 ms
64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=79.985 ms

--- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms


ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp>

No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?

Thanks,

Bob

Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:06:12PM +0000):
| For some unknown reason, I can't access
| ftp://ftpput.sco.com :
|
| PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
| 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=79.677 ms
| 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=79.985 ms
|
| --- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
| 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
| round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms
|
|
| ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
| Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
| 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
| ftp>
|
| No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
| Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?

I can connect to ftpput, and run 'cd 'commands, but 'dir' returns
nothing in any directory.

--
JP

I get a full listing -

ftp> dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (216,250,128,195,14,105)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 372
drwxr-xr-x 25 5 5 1024 Aug 18 2004 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 5 5 1024 Aug 18 2004 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 304 Dec 4 2003 .ftpmsg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1446 Jan 13 1998 .ftpmsg.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 998 May 28 2002 .ftpmsg052802
drwxrwxr-x 4 11982 668 512 Oct 16 1997 AHS
drwxr-xr-x 3 11982 group 2048 Mar 18 1999 EFS
drwxr-xr-x 2 11982 group 512 Jan 12 1998 Games
drwxr-xr-x 2 11982 sys 1024 Jun 16 2001 IT
-rw-r--r-- 1 11982 other 10648 Dec 11 1998 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 11982 group 11192 May 25 2001
README.OSR5.Supplements
-rw-r--r-- 1 11982 group 20410 Jun 19 2001
README.UW7.Supplements
-rw-r--r-- 1 11982 sys 1118 Jun 13 2001
README.UW7_NSC.Supplements
-rw-r--r-- 1 11982 sys 12330 Jun 29 1999 README.download
-rw-r--r-- 1 11982 other 1503 Sep 2 1994 README.ftp
drwxr-xr-x 5 11982 group 21504 Oct 24 2001 SLS
drwxrwxr-x 3 11982 2036 3584 Jun 14 2001 SSE
drwxr-xr-x 2 11982 group 1024 Dec 23 2000 SSL
dr-xrwxr-x 5 214 2001 512 Sep 18 1997 Skunk2
dr-xrwxr-x 16 root 2001 512 Jun 20 2001 Skunk96
drwxr-xr-x 16 11982 group 512 Apr 26 2001 Supplements
drwxr-xr-x 6 11982 group 512 Jun 13 2001 UW21
drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 512 Aug 25 2001 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 Sep 26 2001 dev
drwxr-xr-x 3 8010 sys 512 Apr 11 2000 documentation
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin auth 512 Aug 27 2001 etc
drwxrwx-wx 71 root 1098 61952 Aug 22 11:23 incoming
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root 28 512 Aug 27 2001 lib
drwxr-xr-x 70 root group 1536 Sep 1 2004 partners
drwxr-xr-x 7 11982 group 512 Nov 3 1999 pos
drwxr-xr-x 7 11982 group 512 Jul 12 09:57 pub
drwxrwxr-x 4 214 2001 512 Mar 20 2001 skunkware
drwxrwx-wx 9 root 1098 8192 Aug 23 08:57 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Aug 27 2001 usr
226 Transfer complete.

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:33:20PM -0400):
> Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:06:12PM +0000):
> | For some unknown reason, I can't access
> | ftp://ftpput.sco.com :
> |
> | PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
> | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44
time=79.677 ms
> | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44
time=79.985 ms
> |
> | --- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
> | 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> | round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms
> |
> |
> | ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
> | Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
> | 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> | ftp>
> |
> | No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
> | Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?
>
> I can connect to ftpput, and run 'cd 'commands, but 'dir' returns
> nothing in any directory.

That seems normal if, as the name would indicate, it is a write-only
device.


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"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
news:20050823173318.GP29460@jpradley.jpr.com...
> Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:06:12PM +0000):
> | For some unknown reason, I can't access
> | ftp://ftpput.sco.com :
> |
> | PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
> | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=79.677 ms
> | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=79.985 ms
> |
> | --- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
> | 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> | round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms
> |
> |
> | ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
> | Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
> | 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> | ftp>
> |
> | No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
> | Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?
>
> I can connect to ftpput, and run 'cd 'commands, but 'dir' returns
> nothing in any directory.

That's supposed to be the behavior of this site, execute only
permissions on directories.

Could you please ping ftpput.sco.com and see if the IP address
is the same as above? I'm wondering if I have a DNS issue with
SBC, my ISP.

Thanks.

Bob

Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:10:31PM +0000):
|
| "Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
| news:20050823173318.GP29460@jpradley.jpr.com...
| > Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:06:12PM +0000):
| > | For some unknown reason, I can't access
| > | ftp://ftpput.sco.com :
| > |
| > | PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
| > | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=79.677 ms
| > | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=79.985 ms
| > |
| > | --- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
| > | 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
| > | round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms
| > |
| > |
| > | ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
| > | Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
| > | 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
| > | ftp>
| > |
| > | No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
| > | Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?
| >
| > I can connect to ftpput, and run 'cd 'commands, but 'dir' returns
| > nothing in any directory.
|
| That's supposed to be the behavior of this site, execute only
| permissions on directories.
|
| Could you please ping ftpput.sco.com and see if the IP address
| is the same as above? I'm wondering if I have a DNS issue with
| SBC, my ISP.

216.250.128.195 is correct.

--
JP

"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
news:20050823215805.GF4673@jpradley.jpr.com...
> Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:10:31PM +0000):
> |
> | "Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
> | news:20050823173318.GP29460@jpradley.jpr.com...
> | > Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:06:12PM +0000):
> | > | For some unknown reason, I can't access
> | > | ftp://ftpput.sco.com :
> | > |
> | > | PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
> | > | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44
time=79.677 ms
> | > | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44
time=79.985 ms
> | > |
> | > | --- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
> | > | 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> | > | round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms
> | > |
> | > |
> | > | ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
> | > | Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
> | > | 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> | > | ftp>
> | > |
> | > | No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
> | > | Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?
> | >
> | > I can connect to ftpput, and run 'cd 'commands, but 'dir' returns
> | > nothing in any directory.
> |
> | That's supposed to be the behavior of this site, execute only
> | permissions on directories.
> |
> | Could you please ping ftpput.sco.com and see if the IP address
> | is the same as above? I'm wondering if I have a DNS issue with
> | SBC, my ISP.
>
> 216.250.128.195 is correct.

Thanks. I was able to connect thru an SBC dialup connection which
uses dynamic IP addresses. Or somebody at SBC fixed the problem
within the last couple of hours after I registered a complaint.

Bob

Bob Bailin wrote:

>
> Could you please ping ftpput.sco.com and see if the IP address
> is the same as above? I'm wondering if I have a DNS issue with
> SBC, my ISP.

If you suspect a DNS issue, simply use dig to query some other nameserver:

dig @somedns ftpput.sco.com

That bypasses your normal DNS and directly asks the server you specify
after "@"

There was a little discussion of DNS confusion this week over at
http://aplawrence.com/Web/control-yo...istration.html


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"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
news:20050823173318.GP29460@jpradley.jpr.com...
> Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:06:12PM +0000):
> | For some unknown reason, I can't access
> | ftp://ftpput.sco.com :
> |
> | PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
> | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=79.677 ms
> | 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=79.985 ms
> |
> | --- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
> | 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> | round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms
> |
> |
> | ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
> | Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
> | 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> | ftp>
> |
> | No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
> | Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?
>
> I can connect to ftpput, and run 'cd 'commands, but 'dir' returns
> nothing in any directory.

Just a follow-up:

After receiving a great deal of insight from John Boland and the
IT staff at SCO(UK) in charge of such things, I was told that my ISP
(SBC) had misconfigured the PTR record for my static DSL
IP address so that it didn't point to any "A" record. (I was told
by the DNS guy at SBC that it points to a generic record.) The
ftpput.sco.com, because it allows anonymous uploads, does
a reverse lookup of the IP address and disconnects if this
fails. Assigning an "A" record thru the DNS service at my
domain registrar's website to point to this IP address was
not sufficient. SBC had to configure the PTR to point to the
"A" record that I had established.

And now it all works just fine, thank you.

Apparently, this is a not uncommon problem at SBC and
Comcast, but relatively few ftp sites employ this method of
reverse lookup, relying I guess on account logins instead.

Bob

Bob Bailin wrote:
> "Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
> news:20050823173318.GP29460@jpradley.jpr.com...
>
>>Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:06:12PM +0000):
>>| For some unknown reason, I can't access
>>| ftp://ftpput.sco.com :
>>|
>>| PING ftpput.sco.com (216.250.128.195): 56 data bytes
>>| 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=79.677 ms
>>| 64 bytes from artemis.sco.com (216.250.128.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=79.985 ms
>>|
>>| --- ftpput.sco.com ping statistics ---
>>| 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
>>| round-trip min/avg/max = 79.677/79.831/79.985 ms
>>|
>>|
>>| ftp> open ftpput.sco.com
>>| Connected to ftpput.sco.com.
>>| 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
>>| ftp>
>>|
>>| No problem with other ftp sites, including ftp.sco.com.
>>| Could someone else outside of sco.com please give it a try?
>>
>>I can connect to ftpput, and run 'cd 'commands, but 'dir' returns
>>nothing in any directory.
>
>
> Just a follow-up:
>
> After receiving a great deal of insight from John Boland and the
> IT staff at SCO(UK) in charge of such things, I was told that my ISP
> (SBC) had misconfigured the PTR record for my static DSL
> IP address so that it didn't point to any "A" record. (I was told
> by the DNS guy at SBC that it points to a generic record.) The
> ftpput.sco.com, because it allows anonymous uploads, does
> a reverse lookup of the IP address and disconnects if this
> fails. Assigning an "A" record thru the DNS service at my
> domain registrar's website to point to this IP address was
> not sufficient. SBC had to configure the PTR to point to the
> "A" record that I had established.
>
> And now it all works just fine, thank you.
>
> Apparently, this is a not uncommon problem at SBC and
> Comcast, but relatively few ftp sites employ this method of
> reverse lookup, relying I guess on account logins instead.
>
> Bob
>
>

Perhaps it is relatively few ftp sites, but more than a few mail servers
want you to have this too, including some of the rather common places
people are apt to be sending to, like aol for one.

You can refer people to "Basic DNS: PTR records and why you care" at
http://aplawrence.com/Blog/B961.html for an explanation.


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