On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Gordon Rowell wrote:
> If you use one of these ISPs (cable providers mostly), you can work
> around this problem at the client end by setting your DNS search order
> to look up the ISP's domain first, and setting the DNS server to the
> IP address of the e-smith server (do not use the ISP's DNS servers
> directly - they will fail your local lookups - as they should). So,
> when you look up "www", you will look up
> "www.broken.cable.provider.com" first. The short names www, ftp, mail
> will refer to the ISP's versions of these.
There is another proviso here - you will also need to have "direct
internet connection" set in your web browser. If you have your browser
configured to use the proxy, the proxy will resolve "www" rather than your
browser, so you will search for "www" in the server's default domain,
rather than the default domain you have set on your workstation.
Remember, the fault here is not with e-smith, but with your ISP, who has
built a web site with ambiguous host names like "www". Please complain to
them, and not us. :-)
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com (corporate)
Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739
e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada
