nbc@inf.rl.ac.UK (05/03/91)
>From: ***SEMPSY*** <sre017@cck.cov.ac.uk> >Date: Wed, 1 May 91 12:58:41 -0100 >Subject: ftp > >How do you access the archives from the UK please??? >I tried ftp hayes.ims.alaska.edu >but it doesn't work.It just gives me the prompt unknown host > Andy Semple Well it is not just in the use of the English language that the US and GB differ. You have hit the old protocol hurdle. Basically - US = Internet = TCP/IP -> ARPA FTP GB = JANET = Coloured Books -> Blue Book FTP At the moment GB is not on the Internet. However, coming to your computer centre soon is the all singing, all dancing Project Shoestring from the JNT to provide IP over JANET. On your screens in October (if your computing centre buys a router!). Until then you have to use a gateway machine at the NSFnet-relay in ULCC, that provides access to the Internet. Call uk.ac.nsf.sun (DTE 000040010180). They have a guestftp service (username and password guestftp) that allows you to (ARPA) ftp files from the archive machine onto the disc at London. You then have to either pull them to your own machine using Blue Book ftp (hhcp on my Unix box ) or push them from London using Unix-NIFTP. Come October time all this should be transparent as long as your HEI joins in the IP over JANET service. Neil "just when I was beginning to understand Comms. they moved me onto SGML :-( " Calton -- Neil Calton UUCP: ..!mcsun!ukc!rlinf!nbc Informatics Department, NSFNET: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, BITNET: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@ukacrl Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX JANET: nbc@uk.ac.rl.inf England Tel: (0235) 821900 ext 5740