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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:29:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com>
To:        Hexren <me@hexren.net>
Cc:        freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Connection via proxy
Message-ID:  <20050119232907.40852.qmail@web30906.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <13226400742.20050120000528@hexren.net>

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the laptop is a dual boot running windows XP on one
slice and Freebsd 5.3 on another slice. 

I tried pinging the proxy server but got this error
message

can't resolve proxy.uvi.edu  host name look up failure
proxy.uvi.edu being the name of the proxy server

--- Hexren <me@hexren.net> wrote:

> MM> Can you identify some other tests as well I
> could
> MM> possible run other than pinging as I am going to
> have
> MM> to reboot on each occurence to try see if
> freebsd can
> MM> see that server and connect to it
> 
> 
> >> 
> >> ---------------------------------------------
> >> 
> >> You can ping the Proxy from the Notebook ?
> >> 
> >> Hexren
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> Your message doesn't parse. Why do you have to
> reboot the machine ? Each
> time ?
> I just wanted to know, if at the point where mozilla
> says it
> can't find the proxy you can ping the proxy using
> DNS name or IP.
> 
> Regards (I really should look up some nice way to
> finish a mail in
> english)
> 
> Hexren
> 
> 



	
		
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