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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2002 02:16:55 -0500
From:      "Erik Aronesty" <erik@zoneedit.com>
To:        <jacks@sage-american.com>, "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Has Lynx Changed In 4.5?  Bug?
Message-ID:  <021901c1abb9$99599950$0201a8c0@inside>
References:  <002901c1ab52$0709b830$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> <20020201195854.GA84616@dan.emsphone.com> <3.0.5.32.20020201164157.018e6ae0@mail.sage-american.com>

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Have you tested again?  Most people are reporting that we fixed it... but I
want to be sure it's the same with freebsd.

Basically we added support for the client-ip header so that people who use
proxies will work with autodetection - and that messed up some clients.

- Erik



----- Original Message -----
From: <jacks@sage-american.com>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>; "Dan Nelson"
<dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Has Lynx Changed In 4.5? Bug?


> Rats! My ZoneEdit DNS records just changed again to the wrong IPs...!
> Anyone else having this problem with the DNS IPs changing to wrong ones...
> perhaps after the lynx command is sent to tell ZoneEdit to check it's
> records...??? Have to go and manually change it back to the right IPs....
> something isn't resolving correctly somewhere.
>
> At 12:39 PM 2.1.2002 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
> >To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
> >Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> >Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:58 AM
> >Subject: Re: Has Lynx Changed In 4.5? Bug?
> >
> >
> >> In the last episode (Feb 01), Drew Tomlinson said:
> >> > I use ZoneEdit as the nameserver for my domain.  My IP address is
> >> > dynamic so it changes occasionally.  I have used lynx to update
> >> > ZoneEdit for the past year or so and it has worked flawlessly.  I
> >> > just send this command (my mailer will surely wrap the line):
> >> >
> >> > lynx -source -auth=mylogin:mypass
> >> >
> >'http://dynamic.zoneedit.co/auth/dynamic.html?host=www.mykitchentable.
> >> > net'
> >> >
> >> > After upgrading my 4.4 to 4.5 two days ago, there has been 2 times
> >> > that lynx has sent the wrong IP address to ZoneEdit.  I'm sure
> >it's
> >> > lynx as my logfile indicates the incorrect address.  However most
> >of
> >> > the time it sends the right address.
> >>
> >> Define "send the wrong IP address".  Lynx simply opens a connection
> >to
> >> dynamic.zoneedit.com.  I assume they simply use getpeername() to
> >fetch
> >> the IP.  Could you be behind a transparent web proxy, maybe?  When
> >> zoneedit gets the wrong IP, what is it?  Does that dynamic.html page
> >> let you specify the IP on the url line?
> >
> >In the most recent "error", my IP address was really 207.173.227.80
> >but ZoneEdit received 68.49.248.133.  From my log of the cron job that
> >updates this hourly, this is the response from ZoneEdit:
> >
> ><SUCCESS CODE="200" TEXT="Update succeeded." ZONE="mykitchentable.net"
> >HOST="mykitchentable.net" IP="68.49.248.133">
> >
> >I'm not behind a proxy.  This is my home network connected via DSL
> >modem and is configured like this:
> >
> >ISP
> >|
> >207.173.227.80 (dynamic IP)
> >|
> >3Com ADSL Modem/Router (runs NAT)
> >|
> >192.168.10.1 (the internal address on 3Com)
> >|
> >192.168.10.2 (external interface of firewall)
> >|
> >FBSD 4.5 IPFW Firewall
> >|
> >192.168.1.2 (internal interface of firewall)
> >|
> >Hub
> >|
> >192.168.1.4
> >FBSD box that actually runs the update
> >
> >I hope my diagram is not too confusing.  My configuration is a little
> >weird since the 3Com modem is also a router.  I have it configured to
> >do the NAT and pass all packets to 192.168.10.2.  I would really like
> >to configure the modem/router as a bridge so it would really act as a
> >modem only and let the FBSD box handle everything but I have not been
> >successful in doing so (even though the 3Com docs say it's possible).
> >
> >The script I run from cron has not changed since I originally set it
> >up nearly a year ago.  My current network configuration has not
> >changed either.  The only thing that is different is that I upgraded
> >from 4.4 to 4.5 two days ago.  Since then, I've had the problem twice.
> >The URL does accept an IP address.
> >
> >Thanks for your time looking into this.
> >
> >Drew
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
> Best regards,
> Jack L. Stone,
> Server Admin
>
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>
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