Arachne and Skipper (DOS-based browsers) don't work with www.tir.com

Aug 8 13:58 UTC 2000

I am testing out two DOS-based browsers, Arachne and Skipper (part of New Deal
Office Suite).  They work fine using three ISPs (MichComm, Freewwweb, and
Worldshare).  With a fourth ISP (The Internet Ramp, www.tir.com) I can dial
and connect with both, but not access any websites.  Arachen will access and
download from its own websites only.  Netscape 3/Win31 works fine with TIR
and they have had no complaints from anyone else about incompatibility with
browsers.  Skipper usually crashes when I try to access a website and the
favorites list got messed up to the point where even Worldshare cannot use
it (I get some dialog box instead of Altavista).  TIR suggested typing in the
IP numbers instead of the names and adding their gateway address but that did
not help.   Any ideas what is going on, and how either the browsers or the
ISP might be modified to fix it?  Both DOS-based browsers are still sort of
buggy.