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The Question is: I am behind a proxy (Wingate) and using TCP Services 4.2. I have a program that needs access to Internet via HTTP but, even configuring the proxy address and port on this program, I get the following error: gethostbyname : non-translatable VMS error code 0x182B2 How can I also tell to UCX FTP client to access the internet via the proxy server ? (Proxy is already configured, since NT clients work) The Answer is :
An OpenVMS System running TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS can operate from
behind a WinGate proxy server.
To use FTP from an OpenVMS system through WinGate, you will need to use
two steps. You must first start by FTPing to the WinGate system, then
enter the "correct" target to the WinGate prompt. In this example, the
real target is account "wizard" on node 127.0.0.2 and the address of the
WinGate node is 127.0.0.1.
$ ftp 127.0.0.1
220 WinGate Engine FTP Gateway ready
Connected to 127.0.0.1
Name (127.0.0.1:wizard): wizard@127.0.0.2
331 Username WIZARD requires a Password.
Password:
230 User logged in.
FTP>
For HTTP use, your web browser should have its proxy set to the address
of the WinGate system (in this example, 127.0.0.1). You may need to
configure the WinGate system to cascade to another proxy server (though
if it is already working for other systems, it is probably already correct).
TCP/IP Services should be configured to have the default gateway and DNS
name server settings point to the WinGate system. (For information on
this topic, see "Configuring TCP/IP default route (gateway)?" here in the
Ask The Wizard area -- most sites will use UCX$CONFIG (pre-V5.0) or (in
V5.0 and later) TCPIP$CONFIG for this purpose.)
For simplicity, you will probably initially want to use only numeric IP
addresses. Once you have that configuration working, then you can add
the use DNS and the associated host name translations.
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