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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: silly server
Date: 13 May 1997 13:54:26 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <337806BD.2781E494@searchutah.com>,
"Steven J. Smith" <steve@searchutah.com> writes:
> rob wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have set up my freebsd machine to work on the internet
>> (I can run use the web and run x programs from remote computers, etc).
>> Also, my web server (apache running on my machine) responds and works
>> fine so long as I use the localhost address. But if I try to access
>> my server my ip address (which is dynamically set when I dial up) or try
>> to ping myself -- no response whatsoever.
>>
>> I feel like I've looked everywhere on the web on how to fix this.
>> What do I do?
>>
>> rob.
>
> I was suffering similar symptoms until I changed my /etc/sysconfig file,
> disabling the tcp extensions.
>
> tcp_extensions=NO
>
> I have a colleague who was running FreeBSD 2.2, and he couldn't access
> my web server or telnet to my machine, until disabling the tcp
> extensions. I don't know if this was the *correct* solution, but it
> worked for me.
It's worth having a look at http://www.freebsd.org/~brian. It has
a copy of the updated 2.2 code that should work a *lot* better and
should solve a lot of the "niggles" that people have been seeing.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !