Re: lynx-dev Problems with Lynx 2.8rel.2 under AIX 3.2.5.1.

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, address@hidden wrote:

> I'm having a problem getting Lynx 2.8rel.2 to work under AIX 3.2.5.1 on an 
> RS/6000 550.  It compiles, installs, and executes just fine and it works 
> great for calling up local files via "file://localhost/"..., etc.  However, 
> when I try to access a web server on another machine on our LAN, it says 
> "Lookup up"..., etc. and just sits there forever (well, until I hit 
> [CTRL]+[C], anyway).  The other machine is call "chhnts1" and it's part of 
> a domain called "chh.dom".  It's IP address is 10.0.1.6.  The actual web 
> server is on port 8010 (not 80), but when I access port 80 on that web 
> server from a Windows 95 machine on our LAN running Microsoft Internet 
> Explorer 3.0 I get an error page generated by the web server (i.e. I get a 
> page, not a hang!)...  I've tried accessing the web server from Lynx with 
> the following URL's (all of which work from Internet Explorer):
> 
> http://chhnts1
> http://chhnts1.chh.dom
> http://10.0.1.6
> http://chhnts1:8010
> http://chhnts1.chh.dom:8010
> http://10.0.1.6:8010
> 
> The web server is running on a Windows NT 4.0 Server (chhnts1).  The name 
> of the software is WinGate 2.1d.  WinGate is a web server and a proxy 
> server.  I've also tried setting up Lynx to use the WinGate proxy server so 
> I could access the Internet from the AIX machine (chhnts1 is connected to 
> the Internet through WinGate), but no matter what I've tried, I can't get 
> Lynx to call up anything except documents on the local host (the AIX 
> machine).
> 
> Anyway, I'm stuck.  Any help you could give me with getting Lynx to 1) 
> access chhnts1 via the LAN, and 2) access the Internet via the WinGate 
> proxy server on chhnts1 would be appreciated.  I suspect that if I can get 
> Lynx to access chhnts1 then I can get it to use WinGate to access the 
> Internet.
> 
> Some additional info.:
> 
> I have added the "www 80/tcp" and "www 80/udp" entries to the /etc/services 
> file on the AIX machine (if that matters).

(It shouldn't matter, as far as lynx is concerned.)

> I'm running DNS for the LAN on the AIX machine (not that that should matter 
> either).
> The DNS works fine as does WinGate both as a web server and a proxy server 
> for all other applications on both of our AIX machines, or Windows NT 
> server, and all our Windows 95 workstations.

lynx -trace (-tlog) should show you whether lynx resolves the address
correctly.

> The Windows 95 workstations have no trouble accessing the Internet through 
> WinGate on chhnts1.
> The Windows 95 workstations and both of the AIX machines have no trouble 
> accessing the Internet via FTP through WinGate on chhnts1, so I know the 
> AIX machines can work with WinGate.
> 
> That's all the relevant info. I have.  PLEASE HELP ME!
> 
> Thank you,
> Beam Davis (address@hidden)
> Systems Analyst Coordinator
> Baton Rouge Health Care Corporation
> d/b/a Capitol Home Health
> 
> P.S. If the syntax for specifying another port (like 8010) is different 
> under Lynx than in my examples (which, as I said, work under Internet 
> Explorer), please let me know what the proper syntax for Lynx is as well.

Your syntax looks fine.  Of course, for making lynx use the proxy, you
have to put the appropriate line(s) in lynx.cfg, or defined the http_proxy etc.
environment variables.  See examples in lynx.cfg, don't forget trailing
slash.

But it seems you have a problem while doing DNS lookup.  (Your
description of the messages could be more accurate though.)  Try compiling
without NSL_FORK (configure --disable-nsl-fork).  There were some problems
with that (not sure whether they are relevant here).  Or try whether it
is fixed with the latest developmet code from <URL:
http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/>.


   Klaus