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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.servtech.com!post.servtech.com!news From: Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Netscape 3.0 thru SOCKD? Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:06:54 -0400 Organization: ServiceTech, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3272EDEE.41C67EA6@servtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: boulder.syr.servtech.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Hello, I'm trying to get netscape 3.0 (the BSDI binary) to run through a SOCKS server. I set the SOCKS host in netscape, but any attempt to access a web page results in netscape reporting that the server is down or unreachable. When this happens, sockd logs the following messages (beastie is the 2.1.5 system I'm trying to run netscape on): Error in socks_GetDst: No such file or directory; from host beastie read() in socks_GetDst(): No such file or directory We have several Windows95 machines that are successfully using the same SOCKS host, and the FreeBSD machine on which netscape fails is able to ftp, telnet, and sendmail through the SOCKS server. Has anyone else encountered this? Could it be a problem with binary compatibilty? (the same thing happens when I use the linux a.out binary of netscape 2.01). Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Shawn Carey