Problem w/NcFTP and IP addresses

On some IP addresses NcFTP will lookup what appears to be mac addresses
and fail to connect to the server. Below is the captured out put. I use RH
8 with dial up PPP, anyone know what settings I need to update or chnage?


ncftp> open limestone.uoregon.edu
Connecting to limestone.uoregon.edu(2001:468:d01:a2::80df:a214). ..
Could not get a socket: Address family not supported by protocol..
Could not open host limestone.uoregon.edu: could not get a new stream socket.




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Keith wrote:

> On some IP addresses NcFTP will lookup what appears to be mac addresses
> and fail to connect to the server. Below is the captured out put. I use RH
> 8 with dial up PPP, anyone know what settings I need to update or chnage?
>
>
> ncftp> open limestone.uoregon.edu
> Connecting to limestone.uoregon.edu(2001:468:d01:a2::80df:a214). ..
> Could not get a socket: Address family not supported by protocol..
> Could not open host limestone.uoregon.edu: could not get a new stream socket.

It's not a MAC address, it's an IPv6 address. For some reason, your
system asks for an IPv6 AAAA record when it should be asking for an IPv4
A record.

Keith wrote:

> On some IP addresses NcFTP will lookup what appears to be mac addresses
> and fail to connect to the server. Below is the captured out put. I use RH
> 8 with dial up PPP, anyone know what settings I need to update or chnage?
>
>
> ncftp> open limestone.uoregon.edu
> Connecting to limestone.uoregon.edu(2001:468:d01:a2::80df:a214). ..

That's an IPv6 address , not a mac address.

> Could not get a socket: Address family not supported by protocol..

... and it looks like something doesn't support IPv6. either your host, the
remote host, or something in between.

For me , limestone.uoregon.edu resolves to 128.223.162.20, you might want to
try :

ncftp 128.223.162.20

> Could not open host limestone.uoregon.edu: could not get a new stream
> socket.
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