From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 31 19:35:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29307 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29089 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kee@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (kee@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta2/8.9.0.Beta2) with ESMTP id WAA19138; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:34:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta2/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA25256; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:34:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: kee owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:34:42 -0500 (EST) From: Byoung-Kee Yi To: Capriotti cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980401085523.00a86100@pop.mpc.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for your prompt response. On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Capriotti wrote: > At 06:44 PM 3/31/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Hi - > >I'm running R2.2.1 on my home PC. I connect to Internet > >through ppp service provided by my school(UMD). > >I have a few questions. > > > >(1) I don't seem to be able to have access to FreeBSD home page, > > in fact, almost all www servers running on top of FreeBSD. > > It seems to me related to the reverse DNS checking. > > I have no problem on Win95. Is proxy server a must in this case, > > or is there any workaounds? > > The description of your problem was a little blur, could you detail a > little bit more ? Whenever I try to read http://www.free.bsd/, I get a message saying I am not authorized and peer resets. Althogh my machine is offline, I set it to have tarkus.dyn.ml.org as host name, with which I register my dynamic ip thru dunmic DNS service available from ML.ORG, everytime I get ppp connection. I used a proxy server which was in fact a CS dept WWW server at UMD. But ever since they configured it not to accept any requests from outside about a month ago, I lost access to FreeBSD www pages. > No, proxy is not mandatory. It should work fine. Any further soggestions, > ppl ? > > BTW, it seems that the FreeBSD site was out of order. I had other reports > about this, though I myself am not experiencing those probs. In fact, I didn't have any problem about a year ago, before major changes were made on the FreeBSD web pages. > >(2) Ever since UMD upgraded their dial-up modems to 56.5K(probably X2), > > I almost always get a message from pppd, "Lost Compression". > > What does this mean? Is it a problem with the modem, pppd, or > > noisy phone line? > > > > Try upgrading you FreeBSD version. It is always a good idea to keep > up-to-date , but the problem might be the ppp. On the other hand, 56k > modems and noisy lines don't match. Maybe it's a modem issue, but not your > modem. Well, I know I know. :) I just didn't have enough time to do so, if it can make an excuse. > >(3) I purchased a notebook recently. I know there is PAO package, > > but would like to know which of FreeBSD or Linux is easy to > > install on a notebook(Toshiba 730XCDT)? Any idea on this, anybody? Cheers! -- Kee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message