A13 Debian SFTP Command

[vfaraci]

Problem with SFTP
I typed sftp myusername@ftp.myservername.com/ at the command line, and I get the error message
"ssh: Could not resolve hostname ftp.myservername.com/ : Name or service not known.
Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer"

When I ping myusername I get the correct IP address. When I ping ftp.myservername.com I also get my correct IP address. In addition, Iceweasel connects to ftp.myservername.com very nicely, so a lot of software is working.

I did some reading on the web and learned that files /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts may have something to do with the problem. Can you tell me if they are correct? Here is what my files read:

file - /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver server IP
nameserver server IP

file - /etc/hosts
192.168.1.106 localhost
::1  localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0  ip6-localnet
ff00::0  ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1  ip6-allnodes
ff02::2  ip6-allrouters
127.0.0.1 debian
130.89.148.12 ftp.debian.org
server IP  username

What am I doing wrong? Please help,
Vito Faraci Jr.

[nibble]

Hello,

"ssh: Could not resolve hostname ftp.myservername.com/ : Name or service not known.

Just read the error message!, remove that final slash. If you want to specify a directory use :/directory