From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 00:37:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09413 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09397 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kee@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (kee@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta2) with ESMTP id DAA10455 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 03:36:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta2/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA12973 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 03:36:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: kee owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 03:36:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Byoung-Kee Yi To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks - In reference to my own questions I posted earlier, > I'm running R2.2.1 on my home PC. I connect to Internet > through ppp service provided by my school(UMD). > I have a few questions. > > (1) I don't seem to be able to have access to FreeBSD home page, > in fact, almost all www servers running on top of FreeBSD. > It seems to me related to the reverse DNS checking. > I have no problem on Win95. Is proxy server a must in this case, > or is there any workaounds? I still have no clue why I need a proxy to have access to http://www.freebsd.org. Every trial gets me "Peer reset" message. I can, however, can read http://www.cdrom.com, which I believe is a FreeBSD box. I suspect that it has something to do with the BSDish reverse DNS checking. I have no problem with Win95 and Linux(RHL4.1) on the same PC. > (2) Ever since UMD upgraded their dial-up modems to 56.5K(probably X2), > I almost always get a message from pppd, "Lost Compression". > What does this mean? Is it a problem with the modem, pppd, or > noisy phone line? I solved this problem by disabling BSDish compression(-bsdcomp). > (3) I purchased a notebook recently. I know there is PAO package, > but would like to know which of FreeBSD or Linux is easy to > install on a notebook(Toshiba 730XCDT)? Since I don't have any PC cards, I successfully installed R2.2.1 (non-PAO) without a single problem. Thanks!!! -- Kee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message