Re: tcp4u
- Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> May 04, 2001
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On 4 May 2001, at 10:27, Irv Mullins wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au>> > > Hi Kat, > > > > I don't know why this is happening. > > I installed Apache on my local PC and everything works fine locally. > > But try and download files from a public web server and it fails. > > > > I'm busy this weekend and I don't know when I'll be able to have another > > look. > > > > Does anyone know if DNS lookups would be different now from 6 months > > ago ... on public web servers????? > > Just to confirm, get_file won't work on any url I tried - "cannot resolve > host address" > it the error message. > > I was able to download a page from my local network server using the > numeric address (192.168.0.1:80) but not without the port (:80) attached. > > Further experiments: adding :80 to a regular web address: for example > http://magnoliahall.com:80 gets me the page in question - but - > http://rapideuphoria.com:80 gets me a page from Pacific Tech touting their > web hosting services.?? I tried specing the remote port too, 80 for regular pages and 2000 for intertrans.com services. Kat