Mark,

Were you thinking of runsocks? (also autosocks on Windoze)  Don't see an
S/390 port for runsocks though.

Regards,
Steve Oswald

On Monday 11 March 2002 02:19 pm, you wrote:
> Gordon, were you telneting to port 80 (or whatever port your proxy uses),
> or just doing "telnet machine-name" ?  Also, is this a socks proxy, or
> something else?  I'm not aware of any browsers under Linux/390 that support
> socks proxies.  There is a package (that I can't remember the name of right
> now) that will set up a socks environment for any given command which will
> allow you to use a socks proxy, but it's a bit of a pain to use.
>
> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Can't use web proxies
>
>
> A telnet to the DNS name just sits there and waits.  I have to use
> control-c to get out of it.
> Same if I telnet directly to the IP address.
> I can ping the DNS name just fine.
>
> "You do not need a parachute to skydive.  You only need a parachute to
> skydive twice."  -Motto of the Darwin Society
> Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D.  (425) 865-5940
> VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Alan Cox
> > Reply To:     Linux on 390 Port
> > Sent:         Monday, March 11, 2002 8:38 AM
> > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:      Re: Can't use web proxies
> >
> > > Thanks for your response.  I've already done that.  It was one of the
> >
> > first
> >
> > > things I tried.  I have the proxy server explicitly set in both
> > > /etc/rc.config and in the settings/proxy panel in Konquerer.  Anybody
> >
> > else
> >
> > > on our intranet can get to the proxy server, just not Linux/390 under
> >
> > VM.
> >
> > Telnet to the proxy from that virtual machine - see what more detailed
> > error
> > you get if any. Also check you can resolve domain names happily

--
Steven J. Oswald
Systems Consulting Engineer
OzTech Systems Consulting, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone:  (815) 337-1035
cell:   (815) 715-4065

Reply via email to