[ILUG] some redhat weirdness

[Johno Sullivan]

HN[YM] everyone,

I came across a very strange error here.. I downloaded
freeciv-client-1.9.0-3.i386.rpm from http://www.freeciv.org/download.phtml

# rpm -i ./freeciv-client-1.9.0-3.i386.rpm    gives this error
failed to stat /net: Connection refused

I never saw a /net before so I try 
# ls -la /
and sure enough it doesn't show up
however
# ls / 
lists it with all the other /* files
adding any parameters to ls drops /net from the list!
# ls /net/    gives this error
ls: /net: Connection refused
has anyone ever come across this before or have any idea what its for? 
I remember someone suggesting a filesystem extension that would
transparently add ftp to the filesystem. ie you could 
# cp /ftp/ftp.somesite.org/somefile.tgz ~/downloads
it might just be a bug in the rpm.

cheers,
johno
ps redhat 6.0 kernel 2.2.10