[Gllug] Mac OS9 LAN http access

[Simon Morris]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:14, Garry Heaton wrote:
> I have an old PowerMac 7100/66 running OS9 which I've just connected to my
> router with an AAUI-15/10baseT adapter with a view to checking web pages
> hosted on a Linux/Apache server also connected to the LAN. IPs are:
> 
> Mac        10.0.0.5/8
> router     10.0.0.254/8
> Mandrake   10.0.0.2/8
> 
> DNS        10.0.0.254/8
> 
> I can access the internet from the Mac via my broadband connection on the
> router but entering this in IE5.1/Mac:
> 
> http://10.0.0.2/dreamsol/index.html
> 
> .... produces a connection error. This URL is accessible from the other 2
> machines on the LAN.
> 
> I can PING the Mac from the Linux machine and have installed AppleTalk on
> the Mac. I tried installing the netatalk-1.6.0.src.rpm from Mandrake but
> './configure' failed to produce a usable Makefile and the documentation was
> hopeless.
> 
> I can't understand why the Mac can access the internet via the LAN/router
> but can't connect to HTTP services running on the LAN without extra
> components since I'm not attempting to share any filesystems.
> 
> Garry Heaton

You don't have any proxy server settings set on the Macs browser..

On Windoze the setting would be 'bypass proxy for local addresses'


-- 
Simon Morris <simon.morris at westbourne-terrace.com>
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