Re: Anyone else use diald?

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Simon Hudson wrote:

> I got diald working with RH6 last night. It wasn't /dev/cua*, it was an old
> version of diald.
>
> One niggle: Netscape/diald seem to hang on the first request. When I fire
> up NS and click a bookmark, the modem pops into life and connection is
> established but NS just sits there connecting.... If I hit the stop
> button and try again (after the line is fully up) everything works.

I used to see exactly the same when I was using kernel 2.0.28 with ipfwadm
and kerneld's /sbin/request-route DoD system, I had an ISDN TA so the delay
was only about 6 seconds to connect (I blame demon for it taking that long).

Any initial request would immediately start opening the connection, but would
timeout and give an incorrect error, this was the case for all utils
including ping, which would show as host unreachable for a moment then start
working. I took to typing ping in a window before trying any other tools.
Others started moments later but before the 6 seconds would wait for the
connection and then work. The ping I was doing was about equal to simply
typing ppp-on or something, completely removing the need for diald! Although
my flatmate's win95 box was masquraded via my computer and he needed to be
able to get out while I wasn't around so it worked out fine anyway (his
connections also did the same).

> Any ideas?

Stephen Turnbull suggests this is specific to Netscapes DNS resolution
technique, could you try other networking tools like telnet? If you want
somewhere to telnet to telnet to 194.207.0.252 port 80 and type GET /

Damion

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Damion Yates - Damion.Yates [at] bbc.co.uk

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