From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 20 02:41:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA13184 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA13178 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 02:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) pid 23717 id LAA23717; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:21:07 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA14955; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:13:31 +0200 Message-Id: <199608200913.LAA14955@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: Michael Smith cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving In-reply-to: msmith's message of Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:18:00 +0930. <199608190948.TAA02310@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:13:29 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Marc van Kempen stands accused of saying: > > > > I have run into a problem with the BSDI version of netscape and > > name resolving. > > the BSD/OS version of Netscape appears to ignore /etc/host.conf and > wants to talk to a nameserver. You will need to run a forwarding > nameserver on your firewall (or somewhere else) to be able to use it > to resolve external hosts. > I have a forwarding nameserver running on my firewall. All the other socks5 tools (rtelnet, rftp, etc) are running fine. So I guess that part of the configuration works. > > I'm trying to run it through our firewall here, with the http-gw > > from the fwtk there > > are no problems, but with socks5 it gives an error about no > > route to host. > > We run Netscape 3.0 here behind a socks4 proxy, although we specify > the proxy by IP not name. I also specify the the proxy by IP, but then I get the 'no route to host' error message. Everything works in the whole network, except the bsdi netscape trying to use the socks5 proxy. It *does* work with http-gw proxy. It must be some obscure interaction between socks5 and the bsdi netscape, but I have no clue :( Thanks, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------