Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 12:27:11 +0100 From: Dieter Koegel <eurdrk@eur.sas.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS (was: problem with netscape communicator) Message-ID: <34FBE90F.AF92C72E@eur.sas.com> References: <34FB3218.1022F26A@eur.sas.com> <19980303094145.52540@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Mon, 2 March 1998 at 23:26:32 +0100, Dieter Koegel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > actually I'm receiving mail and news at my home office with netscape > > communicator 4.04 for FreeBSD. (2.2.5-RELEASE) AFAICS this weird > > communicator tries to connect to my cache only nameserver which connects > > me to my Ascend pipeline. This is really pain in the ass. > > > > Any suggestions to work around this problem are welcome > > Well, the first question would be to explain what the problem is. > Sure, like many programs, Netscape performs DNS lookups. How else do > you expect it to resolve URLs? What's the problem? > The problem is that communicator does lookups when starting, when writing a new mail and also when it is idle. I had no lookups when communicator isn't running. Funny, isn't it? Cheers Dieter -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Dieter Koegel Email: eurdrk@eur.sas.com Unix Systemadministrator Systems and Operations http://www.eur.sas.com/~eurdrk SAS Institute Tel: (49) 6221/416-117 European Headquarters Fax: (49) 6221/474850 Neuenheimer Landstrasse 28-30 P.O.-BOX 105340 D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany ___________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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