Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:18:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: marc@bowtie.nl (Marc van Kempen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving Message-ID: <199608190948.TAA02310@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199608190910.LAA08658@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> from "Marc van Kempen" at Aug 19, 96 11:10:17 am
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Marc van Kempen stands accused of saying: > > I have run into a problem with the BSDI version of netscape and > name resolving. the BSD/OS version of Netscape appears to ignore /etc/host.conf and wants to talk to a nameserver. You will need to run a forwarding nameserver on your firewall (or somewhere else) to be able to use it to resolve external hosts. > I'm trying to run it through our firewall here, with the http-gw > from the fwtk there > are no problems, but with socks5 it gives an error about no > route to host. We run Netscape 3.0 here behind a socks4 proxy, although we specify the proxy by IP not name. > Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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