Latest On DNS Problems

[MiAmigo]

I'm still unable to access this website (www.amiga.org) and certain others from my Amiga setup. I've tried a number of TCP/IP stacks, and innumerable combinations of configuration settings, for DNS, DHCP, and so forth. The Miami Deluxe stack is the one I finally settled on, but its not fully enabled. (Is it still possible to register this software? The unregistered version of it has some features disabled, such as event triggering, which is needed for running SAMBA, and a few others, which may be contributing to my browsing problems. If anyone knows the answer to this question, please PM me).

In the mean time, another fact, which may also be contributing to the situation, is my own set up. When configuring the Miami stack, it became apparent to me that my particular network set up, although pretty commonplace today, is not really covered as an option in the MiamiInit application. It assumes you’re either directly connected to a broadband source, or dialing in, using a proxy, or not connecting to the Internet at all. That sort of leaves me out. Basically, I have a small network twelve machines, running off a Xincom dual-LAN router, two DSL accounts, and an array of three switches. I currently have a mix of W2K, WXP, Mandrake, W98, and NT4 machines, with a wireless node for my two Pocket PCs. Each and every one of these machines is visible and accessible to other machines on the network, as well as the Internet either through the MS-TCP/IP stack, and SMB, or, in the case of the Linux machines, SAMBA. But, the MiamiInt options don't really cover a network that accesses a broadband account by way of a router. That combined with other factors (such as the crippled version of Miami Deluxe I’m using) results in the current situation, where I can access some websites, but not others. With SAMBA installed on the Amiga, I can actually access shares on all the other machines, from the Amiga, but the other machines can't see it (the Amiga) by name. However, they can ping its internal IP address. My theory of differing communication protocols of the older browsers didn’t really pan out – I now have the Amiga running in a DMZ with my game server, and it still cannot go to this site, and certain others.

So, for now, instead of spending all of my time trying to resolve the DNS situation, I'm going to move ahead with setting up an email client (Yam), and something else I really need, an application that will allow the OS to handle long file names from a Windows machine.
 :-?

[Hyperspeed]

I think there's a program on Aminet called Fat95 for the long filename
thing.

As for MiamiDX I found it very configurable but sluggish compared to
Genesis TCP/IP.

Have you thought about the stack that comes with OS3.9... can't
remember what's it's called now but it could be a viable alternative
to the oldies.

:-)

[MiAmigo]

I tried Genesis. a significant amount of the installation prompts were in German, and when it did 'speak English' it complained about key files being missing, so I had to give up on it, even though it came with my X-Surf.

I was unaware of a stack on the OS 3.9 disk. I'll have to look into it.

Does anyone know if its still possible to register Miami Deluxe? I think it'd be a good choice, with the MNI drivers directly accessing the X-surf hardware, and all.

I found a few long filename solutions, but they all seem as cumbersome as can be. I'd like one that works, invisibly, on-the-fly, so to speak, with no exta effort (other than the initial set up) by me. Thanks for the info.

Hyperspeed wrote:
I think there's a program on Aminet called Fat95 for the long filename
thing.

As for MiamiDX I found it very configurable but sluggish compared to
Genesis TCP/IP.

Have you thought about the stack that comes with OS3.9... can't
remember what's it's called now but it could be a viable alternative
to the oldies.