Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:02:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@bit-net.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: localhost cannot find Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419005957.6766j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35394953.41C67EA6@bit-net.com>
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Stephen A. Derdau wrote: > Hope someone can help. > running freebsd 2.2.6-stable > apache webserver. > > Just switched ISP's > > This is weird. > I cannot connect through my FreeBSD box to > www.freebsd.org. It contacts but waits for reply > comes back some time later and says error why > receivng data connection reset by peer. Hm, partial packets. Sounds like a Annex or Ascend problem. Try disabling TCP extensions in /etc/rc.conf. Also run `traceroute www.freebsd.org' from your FreeBSD box and see what turns up. > BUT get this. > > I run my Freebsd box as a gateway > ppp -alias ispname okay. > My other win95 machine can get to www.freebsd.org > and download the page using my FreeBSD box > as a gateway with no problems ? > > 2nd thing > I use to have http://localhost.xxxx.com > my persnl web page will come up. OK. > Now I go http://localhost.newisp.com > can't find it. Nameserver bug at newisp.com. have them add an A record for `localhost' pointing to address 127.0.0.1. > However I do http://localhost.xxxx.com > and it still finds the website. > I searched every where I can think of to find out why it would find > localhost.xxxx.com xxxx.com has placed an entry for `localhost' in it's DNS SOA like they're supposed to. Apparently newisp.com hasn't been reading ``DNS and BIND.'' :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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