[Wtr-general] OT: Ruby FTP behind a Firewall

[Paul Carvalho]

Hoo-ahh!  Got it!  After much convincing, I managed to get our IT guy to
look into the problem in more detail.  This is what he wrote back to me:

"I did find one thing. They may be doing a reverse DNS lookup (our outgoing
IP) and then seeing if that IP has an A record. We didn't have an A record
for one of our hosts. I have made this change on our external DNS so in a
few minutes (possible not for a few hours) we can try again and it might
work."

I tried the Ruby FTP commands again and the error is gone!  Now I can relax
and enjoy my weekend.  =)

Take care and have a great one!  Cheers.  Paul.


On 25/08/06, Chris McMahon <christopher.mcmahon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2) This:
>
> > Net::FTPPermError: 530-
> > 530-Your hostname cannot be confirmed via the nameserver.
>
> looks very much like a DNS error.  If you can get your IT guy to fix
> the nameserver, great, if not, try editing your hosts file (in XP,
> found at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, of all places.  I hate
> Windows sometimes)  on the FTP client machine.
>
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