I am sure I am dense - but I dont know why!!

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> I have just installed ncftp
> Can anyone please explain how it is possible to get :
> 
> ncftp> lookup ftp.freebsd.org
> ftp.freebsd.org:
>     Name:     ftp.freebsd.org
>     Address:  62.243.72.50
>     Address:  204.152.184.73
> ncftp> open ftp.freebsd.org
> Resolving ftp.freebsd.org...
> Unknown host "ftp.freebsd.org".

It looks like your ftp client did more than one lookup, one for some
connection check and another when you did the open.
Getting an unknown host error could happen if there was a timeout during 
the DNS lookup - eg. it took too long for your DNS server to respond.

////jerry

> 
> Puzzled
> David
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