Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:53:28 -0300, rdtorres@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Mr. Glenn McCorkle, > I can't get to open the html pages any more during a connection to the web. > The connection seems to be established nrmally via PPP, but when I > connect to a site to download an html page or when I command Arachne > browser to download an html page (eg a search engine), I always get an > open error message which says as follows: > Arachne Load Error > Arachne was unable to load requested URL. > Possible reasons: > -remote host doesn't have DNS entry > -remote host cannot be accessed > -remote host refused request for connection > -packet driver is installed, but network is unreachable. This may be caused > eg. by unplugged ethernet cable or lost modem connection. > I have not changed the configuration at all compared to the one I had when > I used to connect normally six months ago. I am using the same free ISP > dial-up access as before, and furthermore, I get to connect normally with > this same ISP using the Internet Explorer. I'm using version 1.93 GPL but > the failure occurs with all previous versions of Arachne too and with all free > dial-up ISP's. > So. Did Arachne go obsolete or what's going on then ? Do you have any > idea ? I look forward to your response. Thanks. > Regards, > Arachne user. (I live in Buenos Aires - Argentina) It sounds to me as if you have a DNS problem. Please, let me have a look at this section of arachne.cfg [tcp/ip] IP_Address PPP IP_Grab IP address set to NameServer 0.0.0.0 AltNameServer 0.0.0.0 Gateway 0.0.0.0 AltGateway 0.0.0.0 Netmask 0.0.0.0 TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG ____________ To test for DNS problems.... try linking to an IP address directly. http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Z-cpJz7gAmAJ:www.arachne.cz/+arachne.cz If you are able to get that cached copy of the Google page, but you can't get arachne.cz via this domain name... http://www.arachne.cz/ Then we know that the problem is with your DNS setting. -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html http://www.glennmcc.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --