lynx on 4.8-stable

Bob Hall rjhalljr at starpower.net
Fri May 30 22:19:58 PDT 2003


I recently installed 4.8-stable. When running 
lynx, I can only access sites outside my LAN by launching lynx 
as root. I can't access external sites if I launch lynx using 
sudo or after su-ing to root. I've searched archives and 
googled, and haven't found anything on this. It happened immediately 
after the upgrade, before any post-installation configuration, i.e. 
before setting up NAT, the firewall, etc. Whenever I try to access 
an external site, I get
	May 30 23:16:21 svold /kernel: Connection attempt to 
	TCP 127.0.0.1:3128 from 127.0.0.1:1188
3128 is the squid port. I don't have squid installed, and neither 
squid or port 3128 are mentioned in any of my configuration files.
This has been going on for two weeks while I searched archives and 
hunted through my config files. This only happens on the FBSD 4.8 
box, which is my internet gateway. It doesn't happen on a 5.0 box, 
which accesses the outside world through the 4.8 box. I'm completely 
baffled. Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

 uname -a
FreeBSD svold.krig.net 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Fri May 30 23:54:09 EDT
 2003     root at svold.krig.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SVOLD0  i386

I have altered the kernel, but this was happening with an unaltered 
GENERIC also.

Bob Hall


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