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#! rnews 1736 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!xmission!not-for-mail From: "Steven J. Smith" <steve@searchutah.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: silly server Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:14:21 -0600 Organization: The Smith Family Lines: 28 Message-ID: <337806BD.2781E494@searchutah.com> References: <336EE6AB.41C67EA6@usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: heber2.modem.xmission.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: rob <rob.abbott@usa.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40790 rob wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have set up my freebsd machine to work on the internet > (I can run use the web and run x programs from remote computers, etc). > Also, my web server (apache running on my machine) responds and works > fine so long as I use the localhost address. But if I try to access > my server my ip address (which is dynamically set when I dial up) or try > to ping myself -- no response whatsoever. > > I feel like I've looked everywhere on the web on how to fix this. > What do I do? > > rob. I was suffering similar symptoms until I changed my /etc/sysconfig file, disabling the tcp extensions. tcp_extensions=NO I have a colleague who was running FreeBSD 2.2, and he couldn't access my web server or telnet to my machine, until disabling the tcp extensions. I don't know if this was the *correct* solution, but it worked for me. -- "Steven J. Smith" <steve@searchutah.com>