From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 13:37:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13488 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13404 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA21043; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:36:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:36:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dieter Koegel cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with netscape communicator In-Reply-To: <34FB3218.1022F26A@eur.sas.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Dieter Koegel wrote: > 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. It's trying to do a nameserver lookup and your caching only nameserver doesn't have the name. It's acting normally. > > Any suggestions to work around this problem are welcome Put the IPs of commonly used hosts in /etc/hosts and change /etc/host.conf to `hosts' before 'bind'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message