[ale] AOL (ugh)

[James P. Kinney III]

Have you paid AOL a large sum of cash to get an "AOL keyword"? That
would certainly solve the problem. ;)



On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 13:58, Tyler Kiley wrote:
> I've called AOL's tech support number 6 times in the past hour, asking if I 
> could get any information on how their proxy servers work, and I've been 
> disconnected without explanation (or transferred to cancellations, or told 
> they don't use proxy servers, or something else really clever) every time.
> 
> So... I guess I'll bring my question here:  I have a fresh install of rh7.2 
> with an even fresher apache 1.3.24 running smoothly behind a linksys dsl 
> router which is forwarding net traffic on port 80 to the linux box.  
> Everything works great..... except that aol users can't access the website 
> (stalls on "Web site contacted, waiting for reply", then times out with "web 
> site not responding").  Is there something glaringly obvious that might cause 
> a problem like this?  I've installed apache quite a few times, and never had 
> this sort of problem with AOL -- it looks like the router is the difference, 
> but I'm not sure why it should be causing a problem.
> 
> Tyler
> 
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