From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 01:03:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA12908 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:03:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12891 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:02:40 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA07321; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:02:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Stephen A. Derdau" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: localhost cannot find In-Reply-To: <35394953.41C67EA6@bit-net.com> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message