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Article #258Need Help Reconfiguring Amiga for New ISP
From: Swampthing
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:43
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:43
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I'm posting this message from my shell account because I'm experiencing a major problem reconfiguring my system for a new provider and would like any help that can be offered. The current symptoms: THOR will not "receive" news from the new carrier THOR will not "receive" mail from the new carrier What happens is that it goes out to contact these servers, and just sits there while the RD and SD modem lights flash. But the flashing is different from normal; it's not the back and forth flash THOR usually causes to happen when contacting the servers. Instead it's like a quick blink for SD then a couple quick blinks from RD. Then it sits. I've waited for as long as 10 minutes for it to try to connect, but either the message always comes back "Receive timed out" or I have to use STOPNET to get it to quit, and still get the same message back. So basically it just won't work. Same thing with the mailserver, it just times out. I used to have THOR fully working with another provider. I was pulling news off the servers left and right with no problems. In order to add the new carrier, I simply created a new system the same way I did the old. Another strange symptom: IBROWSE and AMOSAIC will not connect to ANY WWW page on the new carrier. It always stops and sits there after sending the HTTP commands in the "waiting for response" mode and simply never connects. In order to use AmiTCP/IP on the new system, I reconfigured my primary account with the new carrier's information. Apparently everything works with TCP/IP because my ISP Support said they could PING me and see I was on the system. I could also ping myself on my old system and use finger etc. However, neither THOR, IBROWSE, nor AMOSAIC will work. It's almost like they all cannot interpret the responses they are receiving, or perhaps they just aren't receiving at all. I've checked ALL over my system for possible remnants of the old provider, and resorted to even deleting all the files from THOR related to the old provider and keeping only the new. I even made sure that I changed the SOCKETCONFIG to the new domain name. But I've run out of places to look, and my new provider - not knowing how Amigas work - doesn't have a clue. Can anyone out there decypher this problem and give me some help? The new provider is actually a much better one, and I'd really like to stay there if I can just get things configured right. Thanks in advance. Swampthing
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!user2.mnsinc.com!swmpthng From: swmpthng@mnsinc.com (Swampthing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Need Help Reconfiguring Amiga for New ISP Date: 17 Feb 1996 11:43:04 GMT Organization: Monumental Network Systems Message-ID: <4g4f09$f7@news1.mnsinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user2.mnsinc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]