FTP problem on 3/60's

[David L. Markowitz]

felix!arcturus!dav at hplabs.hp.com (David L. Markowitz) (me) wrote:
> I have an unusual problem on a small, isolated Sun network.  ...
> ... The symptom is that when FTP'ing FROM any 3/60 TO anywhere (including
> itself), FTP is unable to bind any sockets.  It fails with a "Can't assign
> requested address" error.  FTP thus cannot do an "ls", "send" or "get", or
> any other operation requiring data transfer.  "cd" succeeds.

Many people wrote to remind me to have a full copy of /etc/hosts on these
machines while booting them.  In particular, each machine's own hostname
must be listed (or rc.boot must use the internet address instead of a
symbolic name).  This did indeed solve the problem!  Thanks to those who
wrote (you know who you are).

	David L. Markowitz		Rockwell International
	...!sun!sunkist!arcturus!dav	dav at arcturus.UUCP
	The above opinions are merely that, and only mine.