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Need Help Reconfiguring Amiga for New ISP

#258
From: Swampthing
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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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
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