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by **James N. Gra** » Wed, 25 Jun 1997 04:00:00

I am having some difficulty installing FreeBSD via FTP. I have a dialup
account with a local Internet Service Provider in the area. The FreeBSD
program asks for a "HOST" (the very first entry block, upper left hand
corner). What should go here? I have never had to use this for Windows
Winsock applications (only domain and DNS). For example:

My ISP's info
DOMAIN=afn.org
NAMESERVER=128.227.163.5
GATEWAY= (won't know until connection because it's dynamic.)

They are expecting an entry like: foo.bar.com for the "HOST".

Should I just put: afn.org ? I tried afn.org and I can't get it to
work...

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by **nospa** » Fri, 27 Jun 1997 04:00:00

writes:

Quote:>I am having some difficulty installing FreeBSD via FTP. I have a dialup
>account with a local Internet Service Provider in the area. The FreeBSD
>program asks for a "HOST" (the very first entry block, upper left hand
>corner). What should go here? I have never had to use this for Windows
>Winsock applications (only domain and DNS). For example:

>My ISP's info
>DOMAIN=afn.org
>NAMESERVER=128.227.163.5
>GATEWAY= (won't know until connection because it's dynamic.)

Not true. Your IP address may be (probably is) dynamic, but your
ISP's DEFAULT GATEWAY has a fixed IP address, which they should
be able to provide to you. I've not done an FTP install, but
from what I've seen in other posts Re: this topic recently, the
HOST that is being asked for is the FTP site to which you're
trying to connect.

I hope I'm right and I hope this helps,

Troy Smith (tdsmith at cjnetworks dot com)
I hate having to use spamfoil measures.

by **Brian Some** » Fri, 27 Jun 1997 04:00:00

> writes:

>>I am having some difficulty installing FreeBSD via FTP. I have a dialup
>>account with a local Internet Service Provider in the area. The FreeBSD
>>program asks for a "HOST" (the very first entry block, upper left hand
>>corner). What should go here? I have never had to use this for Windows
>>Winsock applications (only domain and DNS). For example:

>>My ISP's info
>>DOMAIN=afn.org
>>NAMESERVER=128.227.163.5
>>GATEWAY= (won't know until connection because it's dynamic.)

> Not true. Your IP address may be (probably is) dynamic, but your
> ISP's DEFAULT GATEWAY has a fixed IP address, which they should
> be able to provide to you. I've not done an FTP install, but
> from what I've seen in other posts Re: this topic recently, the
> HOST that is being asked for is the FTP site to which you're
> trying to connect.

> I hope I'm right and I hope this helps,

> Troy Smith (tdsmith at cjnetworks dot com)
> I hate having to use spamfoil measures.

You don't need to know your ISPs default gateway, just specify it
as x.x.x.x/0 (say 10.10.11.11/0).

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