I am sure I am dense - but I dont know why!!

Vizion vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Tue May 31 21:58:58 GMT 2005


On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:49,  the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue 
on-
 Re: I am sure I am dense - but I dont know why!!: 

>On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:45,  the author Giorgos Keramidas contributed to
> the dialogue on-
>
> Re: I am sure I am dense - but I dont know why!!:
>>On 2005-05-31 14:37, Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:34,  the author Giorgos Keramidas contributed
>>> to the dialogue on-
>>>
>>>  Re: I am sure I am dense - but I dont know why!!:
>>> >On 2005-05-31 12:08, Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Well I got the unknown host "ftp.freebsd.org" from:
>>> >> # ncftp ftp.freebsd.org
>>> >
>>> >Does ftp.freebsd.org resolve *at* *all* using host(1) and dig(1)?
>>> >
>>> >$ host ftp.freebsd.org
>>> >ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73
>>> >ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50
>>> >ftp.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::e
>>>
>>> Yes it sure does -- that is what is puzzling me
>>> I get the same:
>>>
>>> dns1# host ftp.freebsd.org
>>> ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73
>>> ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50
>>> ftp.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::e
>>
>>It seems to be a problem of ncftp then.  Have you, by any chance, used
>>any fancy CFLAGS when building the ncftp port?
>
>No just a straight build from an up to date tree
>make
>make install
>David

I meant to say the other weird thing is that ncftp returns the correct ip 
address when using the  ncftp lookup option... so like you say there seems to 
be a bug somewhere.

david

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