Re: [htdig-dev] Rundig

[Jim C. <gre...@yg...>]

Willy Calderon's bits of Fri, 24 May 2002 translated to:

>This morning Ht://Dig was running with no problems.  Now that our server is
>sitting behind a firewall, it doesn't seem to be working.   It just hangs
>==============
># htdig -vvv
>1:1http://195.102.21.22/
>New server: 195.102.21.22, 80

Have you tried accessing the same site with a browser from the
machine on which you are trying to execute rundig? If the browser
also hangs or fails, it is almost certainly a network/firewall
issue.

>I suspected that Ht://Dig needed port 80 access from the server to the
>Internet but that doesn't seem to be the case.  After I changed
>         start_url:              http://195.102.21.22/
>to
>         common_dir:             /usr/local/apache/htdocs
>         start_url:              ${common_dir}/index.html
>
>it still doesn't work!

This would result in start_url being set to
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.html. This is the path to a local
file, rather than a URL. You need to provide a valid URL (i.e.
something that would work if typed into the address box of a
browser -- limited to http://... for 3.1.x). You can also specify
a file containing a list of valid URLs, using `...`, but that
doesn't appear to be what you are looking for.

Jim