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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: lynx sleeping
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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.