[ale] FTP'ing from ISP with linux box as FTP server

[William Young]

In order to reach your linux box, you will need to know

a) your IP or
b) your hostname

If you have dynamic IP, and your host name (e.g.
catbert.users.mindspring.com) changes, then you're SOL.
To find out your current IP address, type 'ifconfig'. You should be using
the ppp0 interface. Then look up you name with

$host [IP Address]

There are third party, semi-reliable services for this. Check out
www.nws.net for more information. It will run you ~25-50/year.

If you will only do this from your machine, you can always ftp to
localhost, though that's not very useful.

Will

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catbert at ding.mindspring.com
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On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Josin Alvistur wrote:

> my ISP uses dynamic addressing for my PPP connections.  (meaning *my* address
> varies from session to session)
> 
> assume that i have logged in into my ISP (using telnet) and i am 
> running a normal login session:
> I would like to start an ftp session *from the ISP side* with my linux
> system as the ftp server.   Is this possible in general ?   and if so, how do
> I find out my address (so i can pass it to ftp) ? 
> 
> thanks, 
> - josin
> 
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