EFS 1.6 bug: can't connect to gatekeeper?

John Chandler [Contractor] (johnch@pongo.West.Sun.COM)
Mon, 23 May 1994 14:47:29 -0700 

To whom it may concern:

I can connect without error using iftp from the command line.  Since
sun-barr is used, I conclude that efs is also using iftp.  It sure
seems odd that gatekeeper would be an unknown host.  Also, I just
used efs to connect to ftp.uu.net, with no error.

Since I don't understand what the problem really is, I don't think I
should try to edit any of the included text -- who knows where the
clue might be.  Sorry if it's all irrelevant clutter.

-jmc
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Emacs  : GNU Emacs 18.59.2 of Mon Mar 22 1993 on test22 (usg-unix-v)
Package: efs

efs believes that the host type of gatekeeper.dec.com is unknown.

Bug occurred during efs-guess-host-type.

Contents of *ftp anonymous@gatekeeper.dec.com*:
Please edit sensitive or irrelevant information.
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open sun-barr.Ebay.Sun.COM
Connected to sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM.
220 sun-barr FTP proxy server ready.
ftp> quote USER "anonymous"@gatekeeper.dec.com
     Original by:  Paul Vixie, 1992
     Last Revised: Richard Schedler, April 1994
     
     Gatekeeper.DEC.COM is an unsupported service of Digital Corporate Research.
     Use entirely at your own risk - no warranty is expressed or implied.
     Complaints and questions should be sent to <gw-archives@pa.dec.com>.
     
     EXPORT CONTROL NOTE: Non-U.S. ftp users are required by law to follow U.S.
     export control restrictions, which means that if you see some DES or
     otherwise controlled software here, you should not grab it.  Look at the
     file 00README-Legal-Rules-Regs (in every directory, more or less) to learn 
     more.  (If your the treaty between your country and the United States did 
     not require you to respect U.S. export control restrictions, then you would
     not have Internet connectivity to this host.  Check with your U.S. embassy
     if you want to verify this.)
     
     Extended commands available via:
     	quote site exec COMMAND
     Where COMMAND is one of:
     	index PATTERN	- to glance through our index (uses agrep).  example:
     			  ftp> quote site exec index emacs
     	locate STRING	- like "index", but faster and without RE support. ex:
     			  ftp> quote site exec locate updatedb
     
     This FTP server is based on the 4.3BSD-Reno version.  Our modified sources
     are in /pub/DEC/gwtools.
     
     If you are connecting to gatekeeper from a VMS system running a version of
     UCX earlier than V2.0, a bug in UCX will prevent the automatic login from
     working. To get around this, wait for the message that says:
     	%UCX-E-FTP_LOGREJ, Login request rejected
     and then log in by hand with the "login" command at the "FTP>" prompt.  You
     should also consider upgrading to the latest version of UCX.
     
220 gatekeeper.dec.com FTP server (Version 5.97 Fri May 6 14:44:16 PDT 1994) ready.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (8192 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> quote pwd
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
ftp> 

current state:
==============
(setq
     efs-18-version "1.6/1.2"
     efs-cu-version "1.6/1.1"
     efs-defun-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-dired-version "1.6/1.8"
     efs-netrc-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-ovwrt-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-report-version "1.5/1.1"
     efs-version "1.6/1.11"
     efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil
     efs-anonymous-umask nil
     efs-auto-save 0
     efs-auto-save-remotely nil
     efs-backup-by-copying nil
     efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|mpg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
     efs-buffer-name-case nil
     efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil
     efs-ding-on-chmod-failure t
     efs-ding-on-umask-failure t
     efs-disable-netrc-security-check nil
     efs-expire-ftp-buffers t
     efs-fancy-buffer-names "%s@%s"
     efs-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-gateway-hash-mark-size nil
     efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-generate-anonymous-password "-johnch@pongo.West.Sun.Com"
     efs-hash-mark-size 8192
     efs-high-security-hosts nil
     efs-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-local-apollo-unix nil
     efs-ls-cache-max 5
     efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix dumb-unix super-dumb-unix)
     efs-max-ftp-buffer-size 3000
     efs-maximize-idle nil
     efs-message-interval 0
     efs-nlist-cmd "ls"
     efs-nslookup-on-connect nil
     efs-nslookup-program "nslookup"
     efs-prompt-for-transfer-type nil
     efs-pty-check-retry-time 5
     efs-pty-check-threshold 1000
     efs-retry-time 5
     efs-root-umask nil
     efs-send-hash t
     efs-short-circuit-to-remote-root nil
     efs-suppress-abort-recursive-edit-and-then nil
     efs-umask nil
     efs-verbose t
     efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
     efs-verify-modtime-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-local-host-regexp "\\.sun$\\|\\.Central$\\|\\.central$\\|\\.corp$\\|\\.Eng$\\|\\.eng$\\|\\.Ebay$\\|^[^.]*$"
     efs-ftp-local-host-regexp "\\.sun$\\|\\.Central$\\|\\.central$\\|\\.corp$\\|\\.Eng$\\|\\.eng$\\|\\.Ebay$\\|^[^.]*$"
     efs-gateway-host "sun-barr.Ebay.Sun.COM"
     efs-smart-gateway t
     efs-gateway-program "rsh"
     efs-gateway-program-args nil
     efs-gateway-program-interactive nil
     )