Re: ftp.american.edu??

anthony baxter <anthony@aaii.oz.au>

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Message-id: <199310290106.AA14064@eden-valley.aaii.oz.AU>
To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: ftp.american.edu?? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1993 10:43:46 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 11:05:29 +1000
From: anthony baxter <anthony@aaii.oz.au>

You write:
> Picking up on an item posted (I think) to alt.internet.services, I've tried
> to construct a URL for the site ftp.american.edu (there is a "catholic"
> directory I want to list in our WIC).  I can ftp to ftp.american.edu 
> without difficulty, but neither 
>    ftp://ftp.american.edu
> nor
>    ftp://ftp.american.edu/catholic
> nor
>    ftp://american.edu
> works.  I tried replacing ftp.american.edu with the numerical address, but
> no luck.  Can anyone guess what the problem (presumably with that site) is?
> 

alamein/anthony/1188 % dig ftp.american.edu hinfo

; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> ftp.american.edu hinfo 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 0, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      ftp.american.edu, type = HINFO, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
ftp.american.edu.       3600    HINFO   IBM-3090        VM/ESA

;; FROM: alamein to SERVER: default -- 192.35.59.1
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 29 10:49:00 1993
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 34  rcvd: 62


I'd say the www library cant handle ftp'ing to a VM machine. It does
look rather strange...

alamein/anthony/1189 % ftp ftp.american.edu
Connected to ftp.american.edu.
220-FTPSERVE IBM VM V2R3 at AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU, 21:01:47 EDT THURSDAY
10/28/93
220 Connection will close if idle for more than 5 minutes.
331 Send password please.
230 ANONYMOU logged in; working directory = AUSYSU:PUB.
verbose
Verbose mode off.
ftp> dir
APPC              DIR        -          -          -  3/11/93  2:43:34 -
AU                DIR        -          -          -  3/11/93  2:47:36 -
CATHOLIC          DIR        -          -          -  3/11/93  2:19:07 -
EMUSIC            DIR        -          -          -  3/11/93  3:01:18 -
LISTLOGS          DIR        -          -          -  3/11/93  0:57:34 -
NETNEWS           DIR        -          -          -  3/11/93  3:01:36 -
READ     ME       V         73         52          1  4/28/93 21:55:22 -
SERAVES           DIR        -          -          -  4/08/93 14:33:13 -


Anthony