Subject: Re: proftpd won't start
From: Ian Cooper (ian@WPI.EDU)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 19:48:52 MST
Can you set up a dns server (for your internal network) that can map
your internal domain names to internal IP addresses? Or you could put
that information into /etc/hosts and put that on every machine.
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Zeke Runyon wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:35:05 -0500
> From: Zeke Runyon <zrunyon@mac.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: proftpd won't start
>
> I try to start it directly from the binary:
> $ sudo ./in.proftpd
> xterm3.columbus.rr.com - Fatal: unable to determine IP address of
> `xterm3.columbus.rr.com'.
>
> Before, I had it working fine. It is enabled in the xinetd configuration
> files. I restarted xinetd.
>
> It seems I have problems with hosts... I am on a Roadrunner cable
> connection. The modem is connected to a gateway router. The gateway
> router is connected to a ethernet hub. The router is forwarding ftp,
> telnet, and web requests to my linux box. Since I don't have a domain
> name, I'm using dhs.org. The domain name of the box is gloin.dhs.org. It
> works fine.
>
> Is there something I have to configure in the way of domains? Do I have
> to run my own DNS server?
>
> -zekemon
>
> ##
> # Zeke Runyon | zrunyon@mac.com | zekeworld.home.dhs.org
> # blog: communistsquirrel.home.dhs.org
> # Mac OS X 10.1.1 5M28 | OS 9.2.1 | Yellow Dog Linux 2.1
> # Communist squirrels shall rule the world.
>
-- Ian Cooper ian@wpi.edu-- "m=mrEzEiEimtKrEimzm,mtmWEimrKJEimrm,mzE zEiEimrEKmtEiKEmWm,mHmHKrEimzm-KaEimrmz KJm,mzmWEzEiJbEr" --ian
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Thu Dec 13 2001 - 20:02:34 MST