jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) (06/26/91)
Well, here's the problem: Here I am in the UK, armed with an ethernet link to a Cisco router, a kilostream link to UKC, internet access, nslookup, ping et al, and a passion to talk via ftp to cica.cica.indiana.edu. cica.cica.indiana.edu is internet address 129.79.20.22 right? so, 8% ftp ftp> open 129.79.20.22 [long wait] ftp: connect: Connection timed out But I can do: ftp> open uunet.uu.net Connected to uunet.uu.net. 220 uunet FTP server (Version 5.100 Mon Feb 11 17:13:28 EST 1991) ready. Name (uunet.uu.net:jonb): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> close so, I try good old ping: 9% ping 129.79.20.22 PING 129.79.20.22: 56 data bytes ----129.79.20.22 PING Statistics---- 23 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss 10% 10% ping uunet.uu.net PING uunet.uu.net: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.48.96.2: icmp_seq=0. time=464. ms 64 bytes from 192.48.96.2: icmp_seq=1. time=256. ms 64 bytes from 192.48.96.2: icmp_seq=2. time=704. ms ----uunet.uu.net PING Statistics---- 4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 256/474/704 Why can't I access cica.cica.indiana.edu? Suggestions? Comments? Explanations? [This is mostly boring tripe, so email your answers. If I get a lot of `yeah, I wan't to know about that' mail then I will sumarise]. -- Dont believe a word of this.
greg@travis.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) (06/26/91)
jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes: >Well, here's the problem: >cica.cica.indiana.edu is internet address 129.79.20.22 right? so, >8% ftp >ftp> open 129.79.20.22 >[long wait] >ftp: connect: Connection timed out >Why can't I access cica.cica.indiana.edu? >Suggestions? Comments? Explanations? Remember, There are many, many things that can break between Indiana and the United Kingdom. CICA occasionally goes down or has maintenance performed on it. Our network connection sometimes gets run over by someone's chair. We have thunderstorms in the midwest during summer. Our machine room airconditioner quits. We try our best, but it looks like you tried to get to us during a time when our campus routers were being reloaded. Caveat emptor and try, try again. cheers, greg -- Gregory Reed Travis C I C A Center for Innovative Computing Applications|greg@cica.indiana.edu (work) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 |frognix!greg@cica.indiana.edu (hm)