Fedora ftp install without a name server?

[Ben Scott]

On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
>         It was a good try.  With the subnetword temporarily isolated
> from the rest of the world, and the server firewall disabled, I could
> ftp from knoppix in passive mode, including data connections ...

  Woo who!

> ... but FC5 installer still can't connect.

  D'oh!

> For now I'm starting to lean toward an installer problem.

  Certainly could be.  I wonder if FTP install is just broken in
FC5...  nothing currently open in RHS Bugzilla.

>  I guess I'll move on to running apache (or maybe
> tux) on the server and see if the http install works.

  HTTP would mean a single TCP connection on the world's favorite
port, so that might be a good idea.

-- Ben