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- From: tjauhiai@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tommi Jauhiainen)
- Subject: Re: Why can't I finger byu.edu ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.215122.29136@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1k71nuINNatf@news.gac.edu> <93027.213544SXB134@psuvm.psu.edu> <28JAN199312444604@venus.cc.hollandc.pe.ca>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:51:22 GMT
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- In <28JAN199312444604@venus.cc.hollandc.pe.ca> mcgrath@venus.cc.hollandc.pe.ca (178 McGrath, Jim P) writes:
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- >In article <93027.213544SXB134@psuvm.psu.edu>, <SXB134@psuvm.psu.edu> writes...
- >>In article <1k71nuINNatf@news.gac.edu>, nbohlig@quince.gac.edu (Nathan M Bohlig)
- >>says:
- >>>
- >>>I am confused, I have tried to mail someone, and I have tried to finger
- >>>byu.edu but I am always refused...have any ideas how I can get through?
- >>>
- >>Are you sure this is the complete address? Try using findnode, or whatever
- >>command they might have at your internet site. "byu.edu" may not be the
- >>complete address (in fact, it's probably not.)
- >> Steve.
-
- >You may be trying to connect to a system that is not compatible with FINGER.
- >Unix can't connect to a VMS system to check them out sometimes. I know that I
- >am on a VAX, and the university up the street (running unix) can't finger me,
- >and we are only a few blocks away...
-
- Or that other system just doesn't have finger-daemon running. So there
- is nobody answering to your finger! And some systems don't have fixed
- lines, they connect via dial-up lines. These systems you can't finger.
-
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- Tommi Jauhiainen, Paraistentie 17 D 61, 00280 Helsinki, Finland, +358-0-418294
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