Unable to execute a binary file

Question

I'm trying to run a server following the official instructions (http://www.ventrilo.com/setup.php#Server_Installing), but when I try to execute the binary i get this:
[srv@srv ventsrv]$ ./ventrilo_srv
bash: ./ventrilo_srv: No such file or directory
[srv@srv ventsrv]$
The permissions seem to be in order
[srv@srv ventsrv]$ ls -al
total 596
drwxr-xr-x 2 srv users 40 Nov 19 2008 .
drwx------ 3 srv users 4096 Apr 4 17:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 srv users 14388 Nov 12 2007 LICENSE
-rwxr-x--x 1 srv users 468420 Nov 19 2008 ventrilo_srv
-rw-r--r-- 1 srv users 47244 Nov 12 2007 ventrilo_srv.htm
-rw-r----- 1 srv users 312 Nov 12 2007 ventrilo_srv.ini
-rwxr-x--- 1 srv users 55032 Nov 19 2008 ventrilo_status
[srv@srv ventsrv]$
I also tried using ". ventrilo_srv" instead, where I get:
[srv@srv ventsrv]$ . ventrilo_srv
bash: .: ventrilo_srv: cannot execute binary file
[srv@srv ventsrv]$
What's wrong?

Answer 1

error17 wrote:
Alright, thanks for the help all.
If ". <executable>" is wrong though, why did it say "cannot execute" and not just "command not found" as it usually does when one tries to use a non existent command?
is builtin bash command. Here is copypaste from man bash:
. filename [arguments]
source filename [arguments]
Read and execute commands from filename in the current shell environment and return the exit status of the last command executed from filename. If filename does not contain a slash, file names in PATH are used to find the directory containing filename. The file searched for in PATH need not be executable. When bash is not in posix mode, the current directory is searched if no file is found in PATH. If the sourcepath option to the shopt builtin command is turned off, the PATH is not searched. If any arguments are supplied, they become the positional parameters when filename is executed. Otherwise the positional parameters are unchanged. The return status is the status of the last command exited within the script (0 if no commands are executed), and false if filename is not found or cannot be read.