From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 14: 8: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F24437B401 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACF143E0A for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g61L7swW044845; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:07:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:07:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Brett Rogers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic detection of a proxy server Message-ID: <20020701210754.GA38502@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200207011327.44525.loki_bsd@cox.net> <20020701202908.GA64411@dan.emsphone.com> <200207011410.44278.loki_bsd@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207011410.44278.loki_bsd@cox.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 01), Brett Rogers said: > On Monday 01 July 2002 01:29 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > A quick way would be to go to a windows box, and go to > > http://www2.simflex.com/ip.shtml . Or google for "your ip address is" > > and use one of the other sites that do the same thing. This will tell > > you the IP of the proxy, but depending on how your school's network is > > set up, it night not help. They may have a list of IP numbers or MAC > > addresses that are allowed to use the Internet. > > Assuming I do get the IP of the proxy server, where would I put it in my > configuration files? These are all I've ever had to set: HTTP_PROXY=proxyserver:port ftp_proxy=http://proxyserver:port/ http_proxy=http://proxyserver:port/ -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message