On Monday 07 November 2005 22:34, Curt Howland wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2005 16:21, Kevin Krammer was heard to say:
> > did you write
> > ftp://::192:168:1:20/
>
> Actually, what I wrote was ftp://corwin6/
>
> With /etc/hosts:
> ::192:168:1:20 corwin6
>
> But I also did try the addressing as you suggest. No difference.

Hmm.

> > Googling brought some URLs in this form
> > ftp://[::192:168:1:20]/
>
> Let me see... Nope. "could not connect to host ::192:168:1:20"

Yeah, sorry.
IPv& addresses are in hexadecimal notation, so this is a very different 
host ;)

I think a valid appreviation is
::192.168.1.20
some kind compatability mode

or
::C0A8:0114

Cheers,
Kevin

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