Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:11:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: FreeBSD Netscape and a SOCKS firewall Message-ID: <19990413031421.93E4714BC9@hub.freebsd.org>
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I have a laptop which can boot either FreeBSD or NT. At work this machine is behind a SOCKS firewall. Runing NT Netscape can access sites outside of the firewall. Runing FreeBSD it cannot. The machine has the same IP address in eihter case. The people at work say the only thing needed to make it work is to put the SOCKS IP address and port number in the manual proxy configuration, and indeed I am failry certain that this what they did to make the NT Netscape work. I put the same info in the FreeBSD Netscape, but it does not work. The errror message I am getting says that it cannot lookup this machine (my laptop) in the DNS. Indeed it's not in the DNS, but then neither is it when runing NT. I really _hate_ having to boot NT just to browse the web. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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