[rescue] Odd DNS problem with Solaris 8

[Steve Sandau]

I have pptp client and server running on Linux boxes. If you're
interested I'll read the docs and see if they claim to run on BSD, too.
My VPN setup is Linux firewall at work and Linux firewall at home (both
connected to the net) with PPTP between 'em. Just like being there ...

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:07:52PM -0500, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Nov 2001, you wrote:
> > > > Got a weird one here. I have a Laptop running Solaris 8 that I use as my
> > > > upstairs surf and email machine. Almost everytime I surf the web with it I get
> > > > this annoying issue, I'll visit a web site page, it loads fine, I'll click on a
> > > > link to another page within the same website and I'll get a DNS error, page
> > > > cannot be found thing in my browser window. hit refresh, the page comes right
> > > > up. this happens about 60% of the time while on any given web site. If I click
> > > > a link outside that site the page ALWAYS come up fine.
> > >
> > > let me guess.  netscape.  you can try turning nscd off, but that hasn't proven
> > > itself to be the end all solution to me yet.
> > >
> > Same silliness on Nutscrape or IE.
> 
> I have seen this problem before on the following network:
> 
> SGI --> Windows box running PPPOE --> DSL -->Internet
> 
> Do you have any rules for packet filtering or anything like that
> turned on?
> 
> I ended up running a proxy server for HTTP on the Windows box and now
> it works fine.
> 
> Please don't hate me for running Windows, they use PPPOE AND PPTP and
> I haven't figured out what I would need to do to replace it with an
> OpenBSD box yet.
> 
> ./patrick
> 
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