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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Networking on campus...
Date: 7 Sep 1995 01:05:10 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950906172313.24849A-100000@rac6.wam.umd.edu>, Gary Jackson  <garyj@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>
># Some broken implementations can't handle the RFC 1323 and RFC 1644
># TCP options.  If TCP connections randomly hang, try disabling this,
># and bug the vendor of the losing equipment.
>#
>tcp_extensions=YES

    Try setting this to "NO".

># Set to appropriate flags for named, if you have a full-time
># connection to the Internet.
># For most hosts, flags should be "-b /etc/namedb/named.boot"
>namedflags="-b /etc/namedb/named.boot"

    Why are you running a name server on your host?  Try setting this
to "NO" too.
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org