Guy Santiglia wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to follow a howto in from the Daemon news section
> of the netbsd.org homepage.  I'm having problems with the first
> step. :(
> 
> When I type "ftp localhost" I get this:
> 
> fredfl2: /home/fredfl2 # ftp localhost
> ftp: connect: Can't assign requested address
> ftp> 
> 
> The howto says I should get a ftp login screen instead. ( which does sound more
> reasonable to me).  What have I messed up on my system this time?  Why might
> I be getting this error message instead of the login screen.

what does /etc/hosts look like?  have you changed the line that says:

127.0.0.1	localhost

??

-colin