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Re: ASYNC SOCKETS

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com May 11, 2002
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Kat:
Do you remember my problem connecting to www.giga.com.ar? I did not resolve
it up to today, when you mentioned the HOSTS file. I, mysteriously, had the
wrong address for giga as 200.49.139.144 in HOSTS, instead of 200.49.81.144.
I merely commented out this line and I got to giga without a single problem.
This line was inserted once upon a time by NetCompressor, which after a
while I got rid of.
What is the explanation for all this?
TIA.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: ASYNC SOCKETS


>
> On 9 May 2002, at 17:44, Robsz2 at aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Well I do not have a firewall on my machine and i could not connect to
> > "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" using winsock on port 80.  I keep getting a
404
> > server not found message.  I have it set up so it sends out a web page
to the
> > incoming connections.  It has only work on the IP address it finds.  I
do not
> > know of any errors on my machine exept that it is very slow.  Maybe its
a proxy
> > thing?  I do not have a proxy configured but i think AOL uses them?  Or
maybe it
> > a cache thing.  I dont know.  Maybe ill clear my TEMP and give it
another try
> > one of these days.
>
> OOOOOHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh AOHell, that could be the problem. AOL sets
> up a vpn on your puter, connecting *only* to their servers. Try NOT using
the
> browser that came with AOL, and check the advanced settings in the
> connections for the original MS browser that came with your windows. Also,
> verify that you have this line in the hosts file in the windows directory
(the
> hosts file has no .extension) :
>
> 127.0.0.1  localhost
>
>
> AOL does use proxies, but they don't live on your computer, they live on
> AOL's machines, to "compress" all the isps they own across the world into
a
> smaller set of ip addresses. Typically, your real ip as seen by the dialup
is
> proxied twice before it reaches the real internet, so the ip you are seen
with
> now may be used by someone in another country tomorrow, at the AOL's
> server BOFH's pleasure.
>
> Kat
>
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>
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