On May 4, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Profile wrote:

> Seems that the firm will not allow an FTP entrance if the provider  
> does not also provide the DNS with the request, and I guess Insight  
> has removed that key component, so I have had to install DSL just  
> to get the info. I need until they can get the problem corrected.   
> I will be glad when they are through all this.

I don't understand the problem. Are they requiring a reverse DNS  
lookup to work?

I am surprised any company allows ftp access to anything at all any  
more. There are few protocols as insecure as ftp. I'd expect sftp,  
https or scp instead because those are secure.
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