NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/42141

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From: [e-mail] (Richard J. Wyble)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ftp-os2 taken down?
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Date: 12 Jan 93 17:32:43 GMT
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Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
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I do not have IP access, so I use DEC's ftp server. It evidently
cannot reach ftp-os2 at all, responding with the following. (This, of
course, is assuming I *used* the correct address -- at the bottom.)

>>> There is a problem with the host name you specified.
>>> FTPMAIL will not contact a host whose name cannot be
>>> mapped into an IP address, or whose IP addresses do
>>> not all map back to valid names.  The problem shown
>>> below is something [e-mail]
>>> CANNOT FIX!  Please contact the Zone Technical Contact
>>> of the affected domain (or its postmaster if you don't
>>> have a way to find the Zone Technical Contact).  We are
>>> not in the business of reporting Domain Name Service
>>> errors to the respective domain owners, and if you report
>>> such an error to [e-mail], we
>>> will probably just ignore it.  The DNS error was:
>>>
>>> host `ftp-os2.nmsu.edu' is not registered with the DNS


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