Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:34:42 -0500 (EST) From: Byoung-Kee Yi <kee@wam.umd.edu> To: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.980331221909.22922A-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980401085523.00a86100@pop.mpc.com.br>
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Thank you for your prompt response. On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Capriotti wrote: > At 06:44 PM 3/31/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Hi - > >I'm running R2.2.1 on my home PC. I connect to Internet > >through ppp service provided by my school(UMD). > >I have a few questions. > > > >(1) I don't seem to be able to have access to FreeBSD home page, > > in fact, almost all www servers running on top of FreeBSD. > > It seems to me related to the reverse DNS checking. > > I have no problem on Win95. Is proxy server a must in this case, > > or is there any workaounds? > > The description of your problem was a little blur, could you detail a > little bit more ? Whenever I try to read http://www.free.bsd/, I get a message saying I am not authorized and peer resets. Althogh my machine is offline, I set it to have tarkus.dyn.ml.org as host name, with which I register my dynamic ip thru dunmic DNS service available from ML.ORG, everytime I get ppp connection. I used a proxy server which was in fact a CS dept WWW server at UMD. But ever since they configured it not to accept any requests from outside about a month ago, I lost access to FreeBSD www pages. > No, proxy is not mandatory. It should work fine. Any further soggestions, > ppl ? > > BTW, it seems that the FreeBSD site was out of order. I had other reports > about this, though I myself am not experiencing those probs. In fact, I didn't have any problem about a year ago, before major changes were made on the FreeBSD web pages. > >(2) Ever since UMD upgraded their dial-up modems to 56.5K(probably X2), > > I almost always get a message from pppd, "Lost Compression". > > What does this mean? Is it a problem with the modem, pppd, or > > noisy phone line? > > > > Try upgrading you FreeBSD version. It is always a good idea to keep > up-to-date , but the problem might be the ppp. On the other hand, 56k > modems and noisy lines don't match. Maybe it's a modem issue, but not your > modem. Well, I know I know. :) I just didn't have enough time to do so, if it can make an excuse. > >(3) I purchased a notebook recently. I know there is PAO package, > > but would like to know which of FreeBSD or Linux is easy to > > install on a notebook(Toshiba 730XCDT)? Any idea on this, anybody? Cheers! -- Kee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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