Here is some info for (former?) FreeWWWeb/Arachne users from the
FreeNET mail list. The info is aimed mostly at W9x DUN (DialUp
Networking) users, but I think the basic idea of using other DNS
addresses is probably all that will be necessary to continue using
our old FreeWWWeb connections. I hope so. Please post your results
here in the days/weeks ahead.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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I don't know about the mail, but there is a way to continue using your
freewwweb account for WWW access. Same method can be used with WorldSpy.
Create a Dial-Up Network entry for the site using your local phone
access number. Right click the created entry and choose Properties |
Server type: check only "Enable Software Compression" and "TCP/IP." In
TCP/IP settings click specify Domain Name Server (DMS) Address, and, for
example use 207.46.138.11 for the primary address and 207.46.138.12 for the
secondary address Check "Use IP header compression" and "Use default gateway
on remote network." Click OK and OK. Then click on the created entry, enter
your username and password, and click to connect. This should do it. If I
have it wrong, somebody clarify it for all.
What happened, in WorldSpy and freewwweb cases, is they direct you to a
dummy DNS with the "so long Charlie" message on it. They will maintain the
ISP and the POP (points of presence: the numbers you dial to get connected)
for perhaps three months, so people who use the Internet occasionally will
get the "so long Charlie" message when they dialup, and hopefully sign up
with Juno, feeling these services have looked out for their benefit ;-).
They need to maintain the connection (and your username in the signon
database) in order to communicate with occasional users. If you direct
your software to use some other service's DNS servers (the ones I
mentioned are perhaps MSN, although any big outfit, like Yahoo, etc would do
as well) you can visit other places than the "so long Charlie" message. You
may find there is less traffic on your old site, with most people going away
to other places and not using the service.
This is only a temporary way to surf the web: sooner or later you need to
sign up with someone else. There is nothing illegal about doing this: you
are free to use whatever DNS addresses you choose, the rent on the servers
is prepaid, and it is "too much trouble" to comb the database used for POP
access. So, why give it up?
Cleavage (n): something you can approve of and
look down on at the same time. -- W. Garnett.
This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client
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