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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:02:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@bit-net.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: localhost cannot find
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419005957.6766j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35394953.41C67EA6@bit-net.com>

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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Stephen A. Derdau wrote:

> Hope someone can help.
> running freebsd 2.2.6-stable
> apache webserver.
> 
> Just switched ISP's
> 
> This is weird.
>  I cannot connect through my FreeBSD box to 
> 	www.freebsd.org.  It contacts but waits for reply
> 	comes back some time later and says error why
> 	receivng data connection reset by peer.

Hm, partial packets.  Sounds like a Annex or Ascend problem.  Try
disabling TCP extensions in /etc/rc.conf.  Also run `traceroute
www.freebsd.org' from your FreeBSD box and see what turns up.

> BUT get this.
> 
> I run my Freebsd box as a gateway 
> ppp -alias ispname

okay.

> My other win95 machine can get to www.freebsd.org
> 	and download the page using my FreeBSD box
> 	as a gateway with no problems ?
> 
> 2nd thing
> 	I use to have http://localhost.xxxx.com 
> 	my persnl web page will come up.

OK.

> 	Now I go http://localhost.newisp.com
> 	can't find it.  

Nameserver bug at newisp.com. have them add an A record for `localhost'
pointing to address 127.0.0.1.

> 	However I do http://localhost.xxxx.com 
> 	and it still finds the website.
> I searched every where I can think of to find out why it would find
> localhost.xxxx.com 

xxxx.com has placed an entry for `localhost' in it's DNS SOA like they're
supposed to.  Apparently newisp.com hasn't been reading ``DNS and BIND.''
:)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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