On Thu, February 21, 2008 2:23 pm, SJS wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:52:23PM -0800: >> >> On Thu, February 21, 2008 1:39 pm, SJS wrote: > [snip] >> > What *can* you hit with, say, a browser? >> >> Interesting. The internet. file://... > > Well, the problem is that you /can't/ hit the Internet, or selected > portions. I'm suspecting "Da Webz", meaning "port 80 only". > >> However when I start a small browser on the same machine like wikit.kit >> on, say, port 1111, I can;t hit it through >> >> my.real.ip.addr:1111 >> or >> 127.0.0.1:1111 >> >> ... and I'm not used to that. Everywhere else, it just works. > > Hm. > > Try localhost as well, as 127.0.0.1 doesn't always equal localhost. > > Also, can you telnet to port 1111 on your machine? Type "GET /" and > bang on the return key and see what you see. > >> > And is your browser configured to use a proxy? >> >> Hey, it's me, Lan. And IE. HTHWIK? >> > > Troll through the magic settings dialogs looking for "proxy" or "How > You Connect To The Internet" or somesuch. > > As you can't even hit your local machine, I'm thinking that you're > using a proxy, and it's not a transparent one even. >
Now is it clear to all that I'm on a XT box here ... thus the putty? Hmm ... Mark Wolfe is down the hall, and he's been here a year. Maybe I should just ask him what's up. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
