Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:58:52 -0600 From: Aaron Siegel <aaron-siegel@bresnan.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Freebsd behind a proxy Message-ID: <200307300958.52941.aaron-siegel@bresnan.net>
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Hello I am currently helping a fellow user, Rommel B. Ikeda r_ikeda@oisca.org. He is have problems getting is computer to connect to the internet through a Window 2000 proxy server. I only have experience with NAT. I do not expect someone to solve our problem just point me to the correct documents (feel free to solve the problem if you like). I have all three FreeBSD books I own sitting on my and the handbook open in the next window and I am not finding a clear explanation or solution. Is the setup of a client on a proxy server the same as the setup on a NAT (transparent proxy), where set the default route to the gateway, give it an IP, set the DNS, and it is good to go. Or is there more complex routing involved? He also has his ports remaped, ftp is moved somewhere in the 1000. The server should handle the port remaping? ( I will clean toilets but I don't do Windows.) The email address that is subscribe to the list is down, please forward the message to this address. Thank you Aaron P.S. I have posted the details of the problem just in case anyone else wants to help out (It started as a simple port install problem). Rommel Ikeda is unable to communicate with the internet. I have had him do some ping test (start with the server he need to install the port) $ ping ftp.jp.freebsd.org ping: cannot resolve ftp.jp.freebsd.org: Host name lookup failure $ ping www.oisca.org ping: cannot resolve www.oisca.org: Host name lookup failure He is able to browse the web with Mozilla so my guess is he has that set up to use the proxy. Simple DNS problem check the /etc/resolv.conf well not that simple then he ping the IP address: $ ping 210.171.225.106 PING 210.171.225.106 (210.171.225.106): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host Routing problem too. so this leads us to the question: do we need do anything special to set up the routing table for a client behind a proxy server? In the today's email I ask Rommel to send me the results of the route -r to see if the gateway is setup. The desktop is setup to use DHCP addressing and for some reason it did not setup a /etc/resolv.conf file so that will need to be created.
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