[WBEL-users] New install - Firefox complains 'This document contains no data.'

Eric Trepanier eric.trepanier at radialpoint.com
Fri Oct 14 14:02:57 CDT 2005


Well I don't know much about the details - I'm not a sysadmin.

All I know is that with every other OS I've tried here (Win98/Win2K/WinXP,
Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4), network connectivity has always worked right
out of the box, no tweaking required.

I always select DHCP configuration and it just works.

As I've said, the WB are both running Win XP is dual-boot and Firefox works
great on the Win XP side. The Win XP machines are DHCP-configured.

All machines are behind the company firewall but have direct external
Internet connections (no need to specify a proxy).

This is a copy of the WIN XP's IPCONFIG command output:

C:\>ipconfig /all
 
Windows IP Configuration
 
        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : 4600-erict
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : zks.com
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : zks.com
                                            zks.com
 
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
 
        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : zks.com
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R)
                                              PRO/100 VE Network Connection
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-11-3A-BE-91
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.16.0.127
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.192.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.16.0.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.16.0.3
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.16.0.3
                                            192.168.1.4
        Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.16.0.3
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, October 14,
                                              2005 2:50:57 PM
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, November 13,
                                              2005 2:50:57 PM
 
C:\>

And this is a copy of the White Box's ifconfig ON THE SAME MACHINE:

[erict at frederic ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:11:3A:BE:91
         inet addr:10.16.0.127  Bcast:10.16.63.255  Mask:255.255.192.0
         inet6 addr: fe80::211:11ff:fe3a:be91/64 Scope:Link
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:42696 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:1948 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:137 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:4825978 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:212845 (207.8 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:1961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:1961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:2950336 (2.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2950336 (2.8 MiB)

[erict at frederic ~]$
 
Why do I have no problems in Windows, but basically can't connect externally
on Linux?

Here is the output of the ifconfig on my Mac OS X box (no problems there
either):

freedom:~ erict$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::230:65ff:fe52:7698%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        inet 10.16.0.211 netmask 0xffffc000 broadcast 10.16.63.255
        ether 00:30:65:52:76:98
        media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) status: active
        supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX
<half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,hw-loopback>
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2030
        lladdr 00:30:65:ff:fe:52:76:98
        media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
        supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>
freedom:~ erict$ 

> From: Vic <whitebox at beer.org.uk>
> Reply-To: <whitebox at beer.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:25:00 +0100 (BST)
> To: <whitebox-users at beau.org>
> Subject: Re: FW: [WBEL-users] New install - Firefox complains 'This  document
> contains no data.'
> 
>> This ONLY happens on the two White Box Linux installs. I have no such
>> problems on any of my other machines.
> 
> What is the rest of your network? Specifically, what is the path between
> these WB machines and the external internet connection?
> 
> Vic.
> 
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