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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:19:18 +0000 ()
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        info@adn.edu.ph (Information Help Desk)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lynx sleeping
Message-ID:  <199608011619.QAA05104@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960731190121.7622B-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph> from "Information Help Desk" at Jul 31, 96 07:09:13 pm

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> 	I ported lynx recently to my freebsd box. I got it installed and there 
> were no problems when I did this. I tried connecting to www.yahoo.com and it 
> works fine. But, whenever I connect to www.freebsd.org or ftp.cdrom.com, 
> lynx connects but it stops on the message at the screen's bottom, 
> 
> 	"HTTP request sent; Waiting for response".
> 
> And this goes on forever !!!

It may be that your route to www.freebsd.org takes you through a router
that can't handle some extra options that were added to TCP/IP a number
of years ago.  Try setting tcp_extensions=NO in /etc/sysconfig and
rebooting.




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