Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:19:18 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: info@adn.edu.ph (Information Help Desk) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lynx sleeping Message-ID: <199608011619.QAA05104@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960731190121.7622B-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph> from "Information Help Desk" at Jul 31, 96 07:09:13 pm
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> > 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, > > "HTTP request sent; Waiting for response". > > And this goes on forever !!! It may be that your route to www.freebsd.org takes you through a router that can't handle some extra options that were added to TCP/IP a number of years ago. Try setting tcp_extensions=NO in /etc/sysconfig and rebooting.
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