mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) (02/14/89)
Because my campus doesn't have general FTP access to off-campus
loactions, I am trying to use the automated mail server at Rice
to fetch files from the sumex Macintosh archives at Stanford.
However, I need help to resolve two problems:
1) I can't get the archive index. I send the
command ($MAC IND) recieve acknowledgement and
a message saying the index will be sent to me,
and then nothing. I've tried three times over
slightly more than a week.
2) I need to know what part of the directory path
to give to the $MAC GET command, when requesting
a file.
Thanks for the help.
Ken McDonald
{...!mcdonald@fornax.uucp}
{...bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) (02/17/89)
In article <876@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes: >Because my campus doesn't have general FTP access to off-campus >loactions, I am trying to use the automated mail server at Rice >to fetch files from the sumex Macintosh archives at Stanford. A recent Info-Mac posting indicated that the mail server at Rice was having major difficulties responding from requests from non-BITNET sites, and requesting that you stop trying to use it until they get it fixed: |Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 14:27:25 CST |From: "Mark R. Williamson" <MARK%RICE@icsa.rice.edu> |Subject: Administrivia | |[The postmaster at RICE] has run into a problem. He is getting hundreds of |pieces of bounced mail per day, caused by non-BITNET, non-Internet sites asking |our server for files. Unfortunately, our gateway to the Internet and |beyond does not know how to reach sites represented by MX records in the |Internet Domain Name Servers. The gateway function is performed by IBM's |TCP/IP for VM product, 5798-FAL, which does not understand MX records. |The IBM development team understands the problem, but has not yet issued |changes to correct it. | |Until the gateway can handle MX records, I have to ask that use of our |server be restricted to sites on, or directly addressible from, BITNET. |Since users directly on the Internet should be able to FTP from Stanford, |this should affect only users on "the far side" of the Internet as |viewed from BITNET, primarily USENET sites. Some sites are behind |gateways smart enough to provide usable return addresses, via the % |kludge or source routing, but since we cannot determine which sites |those are, we must ask even them to stop using our server for a while. | |Our postmaster has been kind enough to forward as much of the bounced |mail as he could (that for which he could find a gateway). After this |message appears in an Info-Mac digest, I will let him know that he may |switch to telling users at non-addressible sites to stop using us. If |they continue, we may have to add code to our server to ignore requests |>From those sites. | |We both are sorry to have to take this step, but he does have other |work to do besides forwarding errant Macintosh archive files. | |Mark R. Williamson, Rice University, Houston, TX; MARK@ICSA.RICE.EDU |Coordinating BITNET redistribution of Info-Mac archive files from Rice. -- Roger L. Long dhw68k!bytebug