Re: ftp.american.edu??

anthony baxter (anthony@aaii.oz.au)
Fri, 29 Oct 1993 11:05:29 +1000

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