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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Information Help Desk <info@adn.edu.ph>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: lynx sleeping
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960731205201.264O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960731190121.7622B-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph>

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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Information Help Desk wrote:

> 	I ported lynx recently to my freebsd box. I got it installed and there 
> were no problems when I did this. I tried connecting to www.yahoo.com and it 
> works fine. But, whenever I connect to www.freebsd.org or ftp.cdrom.com, 
> lynx connects but it stops on the message at the screen's bottom, 

Was this from a package/port or did you do this yourself?

> 
> 	"HTTP request sent; Waiting for response".
> 
> And this goes on forever !!!

Hm.  First, you should be contacting www.freebsd.org.  Secondly, those
machines are under pretty heavy load; they may be taking a long time to
respond.

> 	I tried lynx in one linux box and did the same. Lynx however 
> connects without stopping at the message above.
> 	I kept on repeating this comparison and I got same results. Lynx 
> running in FreeBSD stops at the message above when I connect to 
> www.freebsd.org or ftp.cdrom.com and lynx running in linux can connect to 
> this sites.
> 	I wonder what is wrong ?

Bad routing?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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