On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Scott Faulkner wrote about, Re: Socks v4.x for Linux:
> Yeah I found that out...;-) and have web access BUT mail and news are
> still refusing to work, I'm still getting that pesky Socks_ns problem with
> Mail and News I've found Tons of messages regarding this and it seems
> everyone has a different approach to fixing it.. But at least I know I'm not
> alone and am not the only one having this problem.. ;-) I checked
> nsswitch.conf
> and made sure "files dns" was there so I was able to rule that out now I'm
> going to install libc.so.6 and see if that helps seems netscape 4.5 was
> linked
> to an older version and had a few problems in this area.
>
> Go to netscapes web site and do a search for $socks_ns and you'll see
> how many others have run into this same thing..
>
No i would not even trust netscape to touch my mail and as to news, i dont
like pollution, after all thats all it is, a bandwidth eater.
If you sit behiond a firewall, surly you could get you mail via that
firewall, or even get added to the fiewalling rules on that machine.
But there again, most NT server admins dont know howto do thigs like that
it seems, at least according to the messages seen here this past month.
> Thanks Again...
>
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> Scott Faulkner
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> > I told you HOW-TOOOOO do it, you are NOT clicking on that little arrow on
> > the left or "ADVANCED".
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Regards Richard
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http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
Merry Xmas.
