ftp and bind

[Andrew Boothman]

Rob Garbutt wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've successfully set up my machine as a dns and have got the domain
>'rob.garb' running on it, which works fine when called from a browser.  The
>problem is, how do I make it so that I can ftp into the account using this
>domain?
>
>I can ftp into that account using the ip address and the user and pass.
>
>  
>
Hi Rob,

If you could correctly resolve the address 'rob.garb' then I'm sure that 
you could FTP using that address. Therefore, It looks like your machine 
isn't correctly resolving that name.

What does 'host rob.garb' give on the machine that you are FTPing from?

Andrew.