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I have a general problem of connection to my site 'noos'.

My server's ftp name is 'mapage.noos.fr' and login is 'stehub', according to my hotline. I just need to fill the field Password to be connected (in software like Transmit or Dreamweaver), theorically.

BUT IT DOES NOT WORK and my server's hotline is unable to explain why.

I tried the following command in Unix, thinking it would work better:

Code:

$ ftp stehub@noos
ftp: Can't lookup `noos': nodename nor servname provided, or not known
ftp> ....

The shell command should be asking then and check for authentification but .. not !

Have you got an explanation by chance ?

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What do you get if you use the full name?

Well why did you not use the given hostname then?

Code:

ant:/home/vbe $ nslookup mapage.noos.fr
Using /etc/hosts on:  ant

looking up FILES
Trying DNS
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    mapage.noos.fr
Address:  82.216.111.10

Yes , I tried this and also

$nslookup noos.fr

but does not look better. I think there is a problem at server's place if neither ftp command nor nslookup work? Am I right ?

But it is not "noos.fr" its mapage.noos.fr

And nslookup did work for me so it is certainly not server side...

I have found that on our AIX unix box that if I don't have the IP address pointing to the URL in the hosts file then it won't work. This is probably due to how we have it set up. Have you tried the IP address?