[H-CHAT] Re: [H-GEN] Stalling Netscape

Sat Apr 14 01:09:19 EDT 2001

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Conor Cunningham <cunningham at uq.net.au> writes:

> Rightso, point taken.

Excellent.  I'm moving this back to general; I only moved it to chat
because I felt my response was a bit too flippant.

> Im connecting to the net via ppp through UQ on a 56k external Auslink
> Brick modem. Celeron 433 with 160mb ram.

Okay.  As another poster suggested, make sure you have a 16550A UART:

	[1]henry at freezer:henry $ setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
	/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
	        Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
	        closing_wait: 3000
	        Flags: spd_normal skip_test

(It's extremely unlikely you have anything but a 16550A.)

> I have set up a proxy in Netscape and have had a little more success.

I'm assuming you mean you pointed netscape at UQConnect's proxy; is
this right?  I've been using their proxy for a while now (albeit not
with Netscape) and haven't seen any significant problems.

> Here's my routing table.

Well, the routing table looks fine.

Next, I suppose it would help to check name resolution, and find a way
to narrow down what the problem is.  Netscape, quite frankly, flat out
*lies* to the user:  for example, when the dashboard says `host
contacted', what it *really* means is `wow, I found an A record in the
DNS for the host you want'.

So with that in mind, find a website that fails more or less
consistently, and then test connectivity through these methods:

 * try using ping or traceroute to see if packets get where they're
   supposed to go, and see how they get there;

 * try telnetting to the HTTP port (80), like this:

	[0]henry at freezer:henry $ telnet www.ozemail.com.au 80
	Trying 203.108.7.50...
	Connected to panda.online.ozemail.net.
	Escape character is '^]'.
	GET / HTTP/1.1

	HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
	Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 05:06:52 GMT
	Server: Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.0 OpenSSL/0.9.6
	Connection: close
	Transfer-Encoding: chunked
	Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

	172
	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
	<HTML><HEAD>

 * try a different browser; preferably one that gives more
   information, for example lynx or wget.

jason
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